Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practicabilities. The-fastest liner in the world is the 30,704-ton Mauretania with a superlative speed of but 27 knots. Only frail, slender destroyers attain the proposed velocity of Signer Mussolini's liners, already christened by rumor the Duce and the Rex. Allegedly an Italian inventor has conceived the idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost...
...scare, should also do his bit in the squad?perhaps a hornpipe. Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully luring the Associated Press into printing its celebrated "Wolf! Wolf! despatch" (TIME, Dec. 27) declaring that a Mexican "Bolshevist hegemony" is intervening in Nicaragua "between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...
...Alumni Bulletin very rightly characterized the rumor that President Eliot's house was to be bought by the University for the use of distinguished professors as "a delightful possibility--and more than that, a realization that Harvard will do well to strengthen its resources in the way of making things happy and comfortable for its academic visitors...
Happily, the rumor commented upon by the Alumni Bulletin is well founded. Mr. Seymour, Secretary to the University for Information, was quoted last evening in the Transcript to the effect that the University had no plan whatsoever to purchase President Eliot's house. This to say the least, is misleading. There is a definite move, set on foot by several graduates, to give money to the University for the purchase. It is for that, and that reason only, that the house has not yet been sold. It is inconceivable that a plan which has so many delightful angles will...
Significance. This rumor sharply recalled a rift in the Fascist lute not heard of late amid the banging of the brass. The rift, a sizable cleavage, gaps between Republican and Royalist Fascists. Which, at heart, is Mussolini...