Word: scuttlebutt
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...play would start in the Harvard district, and might even be connected with rumors currently around the Yard about ASTP shows and a possible NTS drama--both purely Scuttlebutt. The play, as now proposed, will be coupled with a skit and some musical selections by person or persons unknown...
...Scuttlebutt: believe it or not, a drinking fountain (so the rumor goes...
...failure to learn to read the face of a clock or even to interpret bells, too much sack duty. At any rate the powers that be took a look at present company D and reconsidered the schedule. Close upon our arrival at N.T.S. and still in the rain came scuttlebutt to the effect that the course would no longer be five months in length, but only four. Classes would be given at night to make up for that lost month. Unlike most scuttlebutt this was too, too true. Page the Admiral
...would take a bulldozer to get through the scuttlebutt which has sprung up regarding billets. One story has it that the billets are already here--or at least the billet list--and that it is the finest group of billets ever offered to the School, also that sea and foreign shore billets comprise over 90% of the lot. The only way those rumors will ever be proved or disproved is to wait until the billet assignments are announced; and it is obvious that this announcement cannot come for several (are there enough left to add up to several?) weeks...
...eventually took most of the class to dismiss the dog, and rumor has it that the Professor in question went directly home and shot his wife's pet poodle, but your correspondent wouldn't place much stock in that scuttlebutt . . . you know how these rumors grow...