Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Shem disappeared, he was two years old. As a race horse he would now be worthless but last week Horse Show rumor said that Shem, now 7, a handsome chestnut gelding with two white legs, had been exhibited in a green hunter class under an assumed name, spirited away when recognized by a prospective buyer to whom he had been offered as a bargain...
This year's trip was free from derailments, cows on the track, which last year delighted and delayed the enthusiasts. Only disturbing note was a rumor that the tracks above Readsboro might be torn...
...Chinese people's birthday present to Chiang Kaishek. Coolies have given coppers, bankers silver bars, and so much money was collected for the Birthday Airplane Fund that the Government last week expected to be able to buy an additional 50 war planes. Unconfirmed was an exuberant Nanking rumor that "Chiang has secretly erected the world's largest poison gas factory and the Japanese know it!" Solid Backing. The Congress of the Knomintane, had been scheduled to meet Nov. 12 in Nanking to adopt a new Constitution for China. Last month this date was abruptly postponed...
...nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties of $50 per week for each theatre in which the play was shown. After squabbles with his collaborator and with Federal Theatre Director Hallie Flanagan during which, according to rumor, Mr. Lewis was on the verge of withdrawing the play, a final version was arrived at. Sinclair Lewis attended a few rehearsals at a Manhattan theatre, demonstrated how the "Corpos"- ubiquitous army of the Corporative State -ought to salute...
...more fevered appearance. Buttons of various sizes and hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there is a presidential election on November third, and November third is only five...