Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graces" to gain the sympathy of the guards for their father and the Tsarevitch. The editor of Krasnya warmly defended his action in publishing the story: "I am a good Communist. ... I wanted people to know that the Tsar is really dead, because of the spread of a false rumor that Lord Kitchener smuggled him to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. ... I want everyone to know that Comrade Wykoff annihilated the last vestige of the Tsar with sulphuric acid...
...vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General Pershing was not ill, and was backed up by news cables from Arica which described him as enjoying perfectly good health...
...pressmen departed and flipped a coin with themselves. Some trumpeted, "He let his teeth go"; others, "Not actually alarming." Impartial observers opined that the rumor of a complete deadlock at Tacna-Arica was growing weaker...
...State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without taking the oath. News-mongers chuckled at the thought of filing lurid three-column despatches...
None the less, critics opined that the resignation of M. Loucheur, if not of the whole Cabinet, may yet be forced by the unwillingness of the Deputies to face the situation, no matter by whom it may be presented. Rumor was busy with talk of a general election. Le Matin called upon "the leaders of the nation" to organize "a committee of public salvation" with the slogan, "Save France, or die in the attempt...