Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government departments kept mum. Mexico City newsorgans played down any mention as "rumor," except La Prensa which appeared with the screamer "ARCHBISHOP DISAPPEARED." After a long night and day of mystery he reappeared...
Hence Dame Rumor becomes chief pilot. She should certainly be ousted as generally untrustworthy. Too often a student hears a course laconically described with one or two adjectives, and when actually enrolled in the course, finds that he differs heartily from the gratuitous snap judgment. When the tutors can give no aid, the best-informed source of advice to be found is in the department itself, where the chairman and senior tutor act in the capacity of "contact men." However, if all students who should consult them for one reason or another, did so, the chairmen and senior tutors would...
...date Princeton has only been paid $10,500 on account, because of shrinkage in the estate's assets. For the last year the officials in Nassau Hall have refused to touch either interest or principal. Rumor has it that the original inflation was to let the money be spent in same way by the new School of Public Affairs...
...following telegram was received late last night from a Crimson-in-Stillman-editor: Stillman special stop Liberalism of New Deal has invaded infirmary stop Means prescribed Lavoris for two patients stop Rumor that Ward B would be blessed by phone not carried into effect stop No doubt powers that be are arguing over advisability of one of French design rather than prevalent type stop For your information doctors are making time of release dependent on extent of recovery stop all calendars removed from Stillman today stop I get out Thursday for God's sake rush replacements...
...either. Was it possible that the inventive, fertile mind of Franklin Roosevelt had run out of plans? With the wheels of Government bogged down, with the next move clearly up to him, the President arrived back in Washington's Union Station through whose classic colonnades the winds of rumor whistled shrilly. The President was about to address the nation by radio. He was not. The President was going to take advantage of a new "area of compromise." He was not. The President had lost his nerve for pouring out fruitless Government billions, was planning to cut relief needs...