Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain taciturnity. He knows the political ropes well, having been twice a Congressman and twice a presidential elector. As a Harvard man with an added background of post graduate work at Paris, Berlin and Gottingen, he is no blundering shirtsleeved unsophisticate. Therefore considerable interest was aroused by a rumor that his speech to the press was made at the direct instigation of the President...
While the French franc trembles and fluctuates with every breath of political rumor, the Belgian franc has been stable at 4.54 cents since October of last year. Last week it crashed inexplicably to 4.01. Fiscal experts croaked that this was the most serious break in a European currency since the Dawes plan stabilized the German mark. At Brussels, Finance Minister Janssen was flayed by the Opposition for having allegedly withdrawn in part the support of the Government in "pegging" the franc. While the true cause of the break remained obscure, it was rumored that a slight devaluation of the franc...
...humor, and, naturally, a wife. And though John can manage the horse, the truck, and even the sense of humor --Jennie goes her own way. Last fall she wanted to drive a car since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none in Charlotte. "Wish by gar it had a kilt her," said John. Charlotte has its cynics. Though John has reason...
...business at five-thirty yesterday afternoon, my road leading me by the Lampoon Building. I was surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...
...rear did not understand. They kept coming on. The front line stopped. The ranks behind rippled and deepened. Soon the street was filled with a discolored tide that washed up over the gutters, into doorways and alleys, lapping uneasily and stirring with a vague noise like the rumor of surf. What were the cops trying to pull off? What was the big idea...