Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumor had it" that Princeton alumni were angry over the disqualification of athletes, and threatened the Dean. On the two following days the Boston and New York papers publish columns of "it is said"s and of interviews from anyone they can reach; strangely enough, it seems difficult to find anything definitely dependable in any of it. Several papers claim that future cooperation between the three colleges will be impossible; another, that it is all rot; one, that alumni will insist on taking control of athletics away from the faculties; a Yale graduate says that faculties are incapable of efficient...
Until definite reduction is made, every man who is receiving money because of athletic ability alone should be declared ineligible; and in the meantime it would do no harm if newspapers, some alumni, and others who thrive on rumor would stop yapping...
...railways Senator Reed of Missouri has been in Boston, between sessions of Congress, serving as counsel for District Attorney Pelletier. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo resigned with the frank admission that he could not support his family on his salary from the government. Now come Hays and Landia, and rumor asserts that Secretary Hoover, too, is faced with similar temptation, in the form of a $50,000 offer from Philadelphia to direct the coming Exposition...
...candidate for a position, it will be able to tell the business man whom to hire, and why. If he wants an executive or clerk all he has to do is to send his candidates to the office of the Psychological Corporation; they will come back properly labelled, Rumor has it that the new company will make a serious effort to detect signs of average intelligence in seekers after public offices...
...then, is wrong with the reader? Besides a very human desire for sensationalism, he is unable--according to Mr. Allen--to appreciate the proper value of the important news items, "to distinguish the A. P. dispatch from the special correspondents' forecast of conditions, and the fact story from the rumor story, or to take into account the probable bias of the paper...