Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news has yet been received from my venerable sire in China, whom false, malicious rumor has reported still fleeing before the Japanese invasion. But knowing his disciples' voracious eagerness for his veracious analyses of gridiron contests, I ventured to substitute myself in the great man's place and predict for tomorrow major clashes: Dartmouth 7 Stanford 0 Yale 20 Princeton 3 Notre Dame 19 Army...
...trading days December wheat rose from 61/ to 67^ per bu.. a rate of climb which, if maintained, would bring "Dollar Wheat" by Christmas. All of next year's futures crossed the 70<' line and went beyond. La Salle Street's air throbbed with bullish rumor: Russia was definitely out of the export market; the Manchurian situation meant war and war meant a wheat shortage; U. S. farmers will cut their 1932 acreage drastically; nearly one-third of Germany's crop was ruined by wet weather...
...plot is in the same pattern as Madame X and Madelon Claudet. Prom- ising an estranged husband (Geoffrey Kerr) to support a fortuitous rumor that she is dead. Miss Chatterton disappears into the Parisian demimonde. Years later she threatens to reveal that she is still alive and resentful when he refuses to let their grown-up daughter marry. Cinemas in which the climax arrives only with the maturity of the heroine's offspring are likely to be long drawn out. This one, though Ruth Chatterton acts well and ably affects a Russian accent, seems as long as two ordinary cinemas...
...Play, Mourning Becomes Electra, had been in the mind of many a theatregoer for over a year. Rumor about it had been rife. It would be three independent pieces. It would take three days to see it. Each unit would run a week and it would take three weeks to see it. Not until ten days before production was the matter definitely cleared: the trilogy would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours. One wag remarked, "We won't go home until Mourning Becomes Electra." Admission...
...clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus making Italy's entire merchant marine a Mussolini-Ciano family affair. Expanded plans for the loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March on Rome...