Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Hall late yesterday officials knew nothing of the rumors which were published earlier to the effect that Harvard Houses and Yale Colleges were to come into closer co-operation as a result of action on the part of the Masters of the Houses and Colleges. Although this rumor was first published last fall, saying that in one or two cases reciprocity had been tried as an experiment, since that time little more has been accomplished...
...Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel in which a son kills his mother. Readers last week were relieved to discover that Tender Is the Night is built to no such outlandish specifications, but closed the book with still unsettled...
...getting the play on the stage was upset over the action of Radcliffe in the matter but anticipated no difficulty in whipping the cast into shape in time for the opening curtain on May 2. There has been no new casting since the ban on Radcliffe girls but rumor has it that several debutantes who were in early tryouts might be recruited to fill the parts...
...Swiss peasantry were muttering last week. Prices were too high. Tourists were thrifty. Business was bad. In the midst of such talk Jean Musy, who had been Finance Minister for 14 years, resigned from the Federal Council. That was enough to start the rumor that Switzerland was going off gold. Firmly the Government scotched the rumor, announced that M. Musy's opposition on the Council does not want to go off gold any more than he does...
...Dame Rumor has noised it about of late that kind-hearted alumni are about' to send President Conant two cocker spaniels. Not that the new President is a dog fancier--nor that the desires to perpetuate the tradition of President Lowell's "Phantom," of sacred memory. But these alumni profess an interest in President Conant's physical well-being. They knew that when he worked in the laboratory he didn't bother much about exercise, but they feel that as President he should indulge in a daily constitutional. The spaniels would make him go walking, and incidentally survey the beauties...