Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, fortnight after his 48th birthday, the rumor spread insistently across Europe that at last Alfonso, still His Most Catholic Majesty to monarchists, was ready to ask Pope Pius XI for an annulment of his marriage to Victoria Eugenie. A twin rumor was that Alfonso proposed to renounce his rights to the Spanish throne in favor of his third son Prince Juan, now a cadet in the British Navy. Last week newshawks found a few of the Bourbon's "friends" who gravely agreed that "there is a foundation for the rumors." Vatican officials pointed out that the Pope...
...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...
...that the Cambridge police have adopted the traditional method of putting down rebellions, speculation was rife concerning the probability of seeing Colonel Apted mounted on a spirited plug in the near future. What the consequence of such a change in tactics would be no one dared surmise, but rumor had it that the Chief was polishing his boots...
President Kviesis and Premier Ulmanis are both members of the Farmers Union, the party of rich farmers and landowners. German Nazis uttered not a peep in Latvia last week but in Riga beer cellars the rumor persisted that the Latvian Fascist society Katsuelit was back of the present coup d'etat and back of Katsuelit was Adolf Hitler, sponsor of Das Baltikum Nazification...
...have been caused throughout Belgium by this unfounded and irresponsible statement ... by Colonel Seton Hutchison to the effect that the late King of the Belgians was murdered." What the imaginative British lieutenant colonel, wounded and decorated four times during the War, had done was to put into words a rumor that had grown fast from a cloud of unanswered questions about Albert's death while mountain climbing last February...