Word: rumoring
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Like a deft stripteaser, the Administration has for months been peeling off just enough tantalizing gossamer to give the customers some tempting glimpses of a "secret oil cartel." The Federal Trade Commission, which had been poring over subpoenaed oil-company records since early 1950, unpeeled the first rumor in March: it had recently completed a 900-page report, so shocking that the public could not be permitted...
...Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...Hottest and most romantic rumor in California political circles today was that Governor Adlai Stevenson and Margaret Truman may make a trip to the altar-together. Political gossips point out that the Democratic presidential nominee was almost unknown until Margaret's papa, President Truman, lifted him from comparative obscurity and let it be known that he favored Stevenson...
...from sophomoric lips ("I absolutely agree with the ancient Greeks"). He knows how hard it is for any boy to keep a secret, and how the fears and fond hopes of a father and mother cling like leeches to a boy's guilty skin. He knows just how rumor rules adolescent whims and how instinctive is the yearning for gangs, pledges and mysterious cabals...
...Married (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of comic sequel to A Letter to Three Wives, which showed how a rumor of infidelity affected a trio of young suburban matrons. The current picture shows the way five husbands and their wives react to the news that they are not legally married. An absent-minded justice of the peace (Victor Moore) had married them before his commission went legally into effect...