Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon became better known to U. S. travelers, including members of the Roosevelt family, than many members of the Embassy staff. In the meantime he had acquired a promising reputation by serving with special American delegations abroad and at one period was made charge d'affaires in Switzerland. Rumor had him slated for a minister's post. Last year he went to Beirut, Syria for experience in the consular service. Friends in Paris feared the Syrian climate would be bad for his health...
...murmuring sound, is a very effective method of hypnosis. In my day I used to combat the effects by thinking of something particularly ghastly, like boiled turnips. But now, with college food so good, you will have to think of something else. There is an ugly rumor, however, that a dish called Vienna "Lead" Roll is still being served. Try this. Try thinking about it, I mean. Your Uncle Smugly
...timid Freshmen are scornful upperclassmen who are "too busy" for a chat, or who refuse to go through "all that red tape." This is nonsense, or at least an exaggeration. Deans are busy men with little time for idle gossip or banter, but they are certainly far from aloof. Rumor to the contrary, a puzzled or worried student can still obtain an appointment quite as readily and quickly at University Hall as he could with any active business or professional man. Few persons would choose to sit in their rooms and worry about an exam when adequate books or notes...
...conceded to General Motors, as a condition to further negotiations on renewal of the union's contract, the right of the company to fire unauthorized sit-downers without recourse. Militant leaders know that in a growing union members want action, and if there was any truth in the rumor that members of U.A.W. are failing wholesale to pay their dues, trouble for Mr. Martin was certainly brewing...
...says, "dubious," ducked school at 16 and worked as sailor, carpenter, stage manager, had one novel published, May Day, before enlisting for Spain. Volunteering in October 1936, he saw six months action, was at one time reported dead, returned this spring to England "to discredit this rumor," is now living in Lancashire...