Word: rumorings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clear that the Government was sick to death of the Opposition's attacks, that the Opposition was weary of the Government's talk without action, that the Italian people were fed to the teeth with both the Government and the Opposition. The Government decided on action. A rumor had reached it that its enemies were arming. On that pretext, eleven newspapers were seized in Rome, Milan, Turin; many homes of prominent Opposition leaders were searched...
...carouse. Next week the pall of unlighted vacancy will descend from its timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
...Your article this morning was news to me", he said. "If any members of the club are planning to start a 'circle' of the League here, it hasn't come to the knowledge of the officers. Perhaps the rumor started because the fire-places have all been painted red during the vacation...
...ceremony. A cenotaph was suggested but turned down. Finally, our professor rooted out of the Fine Arts department a bust that looked rather vaguely like Ronsard's, and it was duly crowned, with sonnets and period songs as you say. But the secret leaked out in advance; and rumor runs that there were many, many giggles in the audience when the professor in question referred during his panegyric to the ensuing ceremony of "crowning the bust of our poet...
...rumor that he was about to resign was vehemently denied early in the fall, and at that time editorials appeared in several metropolitan dailies and in the CRIMSON, and communications were written to the CRIMSON picturing Professor Baker as a "Prophet without honor". Professor Baker announced his intention of resuming his work next fall, and all graduates and undergraduates were looking forward to a resumption of the "Workshop" at that time, when the announcement of his resignation came last night out of a clear...