Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge next June, there will be ample opportunity to discover whether "a regular cheer for the President" will have the same effect...
...spite of the rumor that Captain Hammond's shift to first base in the last practice encounter with the seconds would be a permanent change, he was back at his old position at second yesterday and from all appearances will probably stay there through the season...
President Coolidge may be the recipient of an honorary degree from Harvard next June according to a rumor announced in an evening paper last night under a Washington date line...
Previous to his departure, the King held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace at which he nominated a Council of State of four to rule in his name during his temporary absence. The four chosen were Prince Henry, Their Majesties' third son (who, rumor has it, is to become Duke of Edinburgh on the King's next birthday), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor (Lord Cave), the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin). They, or any two of them, were empowered to transact all the business usually transacted by the King, except the granting of titles...
Chang Tso-lia, Super Tuchun of Manchuria, was expected to attack the capital from Tientsin, because he was greatly dissatisfied with the Chief Executive. With the ex-Emperor at Tientsin, the rumor of course spread that Tuchun Chang was engaged in engineering a Manchu restoration...