Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cartoon. Cartoonist McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune pondered well this atrocity, drew a cartoon in which an Arrow-collared, tortoise-spectacled, straw-hatted "American Newspaper Reader" was shown winnowing the chaff of rumor from a hopper full of "Reports of the Mexican Religious Controversy." Next day the Calles Administration categorically denied that any Catholic priests whatsoever have been executed or shot down since the inception of the religious crisis...
...venerable Archbishop of Mexico, the Very Reverend Jose Mora y del Rio. The Times contended that the real author was the Archbishop's vigorous field generalissimo, Bishop Diaz. The World repudiated this aspersion with indignation. Readers of both newspapers grew weary of the controversy. Finally a rumor, subsequently squelched, spread that the Archbishop would be prosecuted for sedition on account of the interview and might even be executed. The World's correspondent, Mr. Arthur Constantine, then proudly cinched his interview by obtaining from the 72-year-old prelate two huskily whispered sentences of touching import: "Si me toca...
...wise men think that William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is seriously ill, they are mistaken. At Murray Bay, Quebec, Mr. Taft laughed, denied emphatically any such rumor...
...elders passed on Hillyer Hawthorne Straton and his father ejaculated that he was a "good straight boy ... a source of great pride and rejoicing" to his parents. There came a rumor that another inquisition might be held, and Hillyer Hawthorne Straton showed his mettle by remarking that, if it were held...
...week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...