Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those amongst us who have harbored a lingering desire to gambol o'er the greensward unhindered by embarrassing raiment, ever since the appearance of the Merrill's famous treatise, will not have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds...
...Anyone who thinks that the Government is going to underwrite the strike had best get it out of his head. . . . There was a rumor that got back to me that I was going to allot money to the unions for strike relief. ... In the last 15 months appropriations made because of strikes, in excess of our regular grants, have been almost negligible. The facts of this are illustrated in the recent California strike, where we have evidence that the number of strikers who applied for relief was only...
Said Their Royal Highnesses' innkeeper: "The Prince was humming a little song to himself when he greeted his fiancee this morning before breakfast. The Princess was radiant. We noticed yesterday that the Princess was wearing an engagement ring. So interested were the people of Salzburg that a rumor at once started that the Princess and Prince are married. That, of course, is ridiculous...
...rumor but a fact was the shipment of 400 tons of silver from London to the U. S. and a return shipment of $7,800,000 in gold from New York to Europe. Since the Treasury now legally owns all domestic silver and is not obliged to buy silver abroad, this governmental swapping of gold for silver stirred fresh confusion over the Administration's money policies...
Ever since he retired with a brutally torn thigh seven years ago, the return of the great Juan Belmonte to the arena has been a perennial spring rumor in Spain. Sports writers were always suspicious, knew that even before he was gored Belmonte had such weak legs that he was forced to invent a special technique that made him the darling of the 20 nations that are the Spanish-speaking world. Besides, was he not operating a vast and apparently thriving olive farm and brood ranch in Andalusia...