Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strike Quips. The London Sketch opened a contest last week to discover "the wildest strike rumor." A cheerful Ananias promptly submitted the following: "I heard during the strike that the King and Queen had fled to the U. S. after abdicating in favor of the Prince of Wales, who was then said to have been assassinated...
Leaders of the strikers denied last night the rumor that the action was in any way inspired by sympathy with the recent action of the British Trades Union Congress leaders. They regard the local action as one entirely distinct from the more important national crisis in Great Britain. Their newly formed union acknowledges no affiliations of any sort with any national trade union. No action has as yet been taken by the CRIMSON to organize a volunteer corps of newsboys to meet the emergency, and last night it was the opinion of both sides that some sort of compromise...
Suddenly the electric rumor of Mussolini's will stayed Fascist hands. II Duce had retained his ice-calm resolution, even while the powder burns stung him and the extent of his injury was not known. Before his wound could be dressed, he rapped out an order: "Let nothing be done which will bring reproach to our beloved Italy. I desire that the country be not alarmed. I do not want reprisals. It is my will. . . . If dangers confront us, I will face them with all equanimity. Now go home quietly without using violence...
Tout Paris buzzed with an astounding rumor, a rumor that after 64 years of bachelorhood Premier Briand of France had become engaged...
...indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled it as news...