Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still morning in Managua, Nicaragua's capital. U. S. Marines in their tents at Campo de Marte mopped their brows and wondered idly at the exuberance with which the Managuan oxcart drivers were shouting, brandishing their goads, yelling insults at honking motorists this particular morning. (A native rumor of "Earthquake weather" had gone the rounds.) Downtown, women and children crowded through the plaster arches and narrow corridors of Managua's covered market to do their Holy Week shopping. At the old dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster...
...Golfers George Von Elm and Leo Diegel: a match against Mortie Dutra and Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...
Soviet. What may be U. S. oil's most serious affliction of all is Soviet oil. Last week the U. S. S. R. celebrated the completion in two and one-half years of the oil phase of its Five-Year Plan. But last week World Petroleum scouted the rumor that Soviet oil may capture the rich Chinese market (chiefly in kerosene) from U. S. interests. It was thought that the U. S. S. R. was afraid that by fighting for China it would antagonize Standard Oil of New York and its fiancee, Vacuum Oil, large purchasers of Soviet...
...wherever there is a chance of gold being found. Globe, Ariz, bubbled with excitement last week on the report that the so-called "Lost Dutchman" mine in Superstition Mountain had been found again after 20 years. Several weeks ago more than 500 men, many jobless, were stampeded by a rumor of gold from Calgary to the bleak, cold Livingstone River Valley 100 miles away. Australia still teems with excitement over a 94-lb. nugget found two months ago. Gold-rich Africa is the scene of similar tension. And last week in San Ignacio, Mexico, one Guillermo Laveaga came...
...rumor ran through Manhattan last week to the effect that Dancers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn were to be divorced and that Dancer Shawn would desert the Denishawn School for a teaching partnership with Bill Robinson, Negro tap-dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards...