Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale fence is held by those brought up in the tradition. Ten thousand dollars is reputed to be the monetary measure of its value, but cash is proverbially cold and no one can attempt to estimate the heat of emotion likely to be kindled by its recent disappearance. The rumor that prompt expulsion hangs over any Yale undergraduate who might be implicated in the outrage may be taken as an indication of the reverence with which the fence tradition is regarded in the highest New Haven circles...
...life, as on Mussolini's, depends a whole regime. Suddenly one night last week the saturnine, enigmatic Dictator, who dresses like a common workman, holds no office in the Government and rules in all-potent obscurity as Secretary General of the Communist Party, rent the clouds of fear and rumor by a dramatic appearance...
...House of Commons had assembled from Autumn recess in advance of his arrival (see below) eager to hear his official version of the White House talks. But the Prime Minister decided to slip off for a few days to "Chequers," country residence of British prime ministers. Rumor was that a rough sea passage on the little liner Duchess of York had kept him from writing his speech. His own sturdy story was: "We had what I call a good Englishman's passage. There were four rough days, but we arrived. I did not miss a single meal...
...several newspaper articles calling upon him either to suppress Poland's parliamentary institutions entirely or permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...
Italian. Under former Popes, consistories were held twice yearly. But Pius XI is independent of such tradition. Said Vatican rumor: the next consistory will be called on the 50th anniversary of His Holiness' priesthood, next month...