Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to a bill to alleviate the position of the Treasury. It was allowed to leak out that the Government intended to impose a capital levy of 10% in the form of a mortgage under which 1% per annum of the capital sum must be paid. This rumor, for it was nothing more, aroused the political elements to tornadic fury. M. Loucheur instantly withdrew his support from the Premier. This was not so serious as what followed. The Unified Socialists, under ex-Premier Aristide Briand, announced that, unless the Cabinet stuck to its capital levy guns, they would desert...
TIME did not say that Caruso had a paid claque, but reported a rumor from reputable musical quarters to that effect. If the alleged fact be true, it is neither extraordinary nor particularly reprehensible. Many, if not most, Italian singers have paid claques, regardless of how successful they may be. A claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that...
...what's this rumor vile? Oh, I'm afraid...
...desire to concentrate on his book-subscription business. Publisher W. J. Funk of the Digest gave out, as plans, that Current Opinion would cease functioning "very shortly," that its name would probably be incorporated with the Digest's, as was that of Public Opinion some years ago. Rumor put the price at $250,000. Thus, another name is to be added to the list of recently defunct or "absorbed" journals of opinion-The Freeman, The International Interpreter...
...word in the Washington Post. Not a line in the Boston Transcript. Reputable dailies steered clear, whether or not they believed that their correspondents believed what they said about this "rumor...