Word: scuttlebutt
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...Scuttlebutt ranked the possible candidates this...
...five days, while rumors of the big haul spread through the Mediterranean fleet, the Midway's officers publicly dismissed them as poorest scuttlebutt, and privately combed the ship's company for the robbers. Finally Rear Admiral A. K. Doyle, red-faced, made public the bluejackets' story. The mighty 45,000-ton Midway, protected by 137 planes, 180 guns and thousands of tons of steel armor-plate, had been taken from the inside. Nobody knew who the three robbers were or where the $3,000 had gone...
...brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan of the Navy's Captain George Anderson, 44. Anderson, whom Sherman had picked as his operations officer when he commanded the Sixth Fleet, is, according to Pentagon scuttlebutt, "sure to be CNO some...
...days later, after Critic Burke's session in the managing editor's office, the scuttlebutt was confirmed: some changes would be made. From now on, someone else will review art and music for the Globe-Democrat. Veteran Burke will do nothing but books...
...club owners acted as if they had not heard a word. They set March as the month of decision, made a date to meet in Florida to pick a commissioner. Top name in the scuttlebutt last week: Governor Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, a Democrat who bitterly offended party regulars by conceding, before the last elections, that Bob Taft has his good points. Among other things, Lausche was once (1917) a third baseman for Duluth in the Northern League...