Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eaton was imprisoned with "bishops, priests, princes and a drug peddler" in a Bolshevik prison for two months and undoubtedly underwent harrowing experiences. Said he: "I was arrested in Moscow on a charge of being a spy, although I have no idea where the rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that...
...suit for libel and slander which the owners of the Marion Star had instituted against him on the allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing them in The Star and other papers controlled by them...
...mention of tea seems to imply that the outraged visitors were Englishmen, although the rumor once persisted that Harvard oarsmen likewise delighted in an afternoon cup. The origin of the English love for tea is said to have been associated with the enclosure of the commons. With the loss of common rights went the ability to keep a family cow; and when milk was denied him the Englishman turned to tea. Be that as it may; the addition to tea does seem the distinguishing mark of the Englishman, just as the red strand once identified all the cordage...
...separate ticket he might well carry Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana? and enough electoral votes to throw the election into the House of Representatives, where he holds the balance of power. Even so, the chance of his final election would be small. Perhaps he merely permits the rumor, in order to have a club to hold over the makers of the Republican platform. Perhaps he means business. Politicians would like to know...
...smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back to the boathouse, where a rumor quickly spread that tomorrow the river will be dredged for the missing smoke-stack...