Word: rumoring
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Even friendly Labor Party M.P.s were passing on the rumor: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, was hearing voices. One newsman put the question straight to him: Did he hear voices or didn't he? Instead of laughing, Cripps rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a long moment, then answered seriously, with a sentence that would have stunned Joan of Arc's judges: "I don't think so-at least...
...Earlier in the week Cripps announced that the dollar deficit had been reduced, and the London Daily Telegraph made one of the worst puns in years: "There is no truth . . . in the rumor that when Sir Stafford Cripps preaches in St. Paul's he will wear a surplus...
...explaining to do at home. He had announced in Cherbourg that the Duchess of Windsor had "received several offers" of jobs. When they arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess said to reporters who interviewed them: "I'm afraid that's just a rumor." Then, with a sidelong glance at the Duke: "I have quite a full-time job now." One of the Duke's first jobs on U.S. soil: escorting his Duchess to a New Year's Eve party at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, where the Windsors bumped into another exiled royal couple...
...flying-saucer yarn was much too good to die young. Last week the U.S. was abuzz again with rumors about mysterious aircraft flitting around the sky. Latest rumor, presented as truth by the current issue of True magazine: "For the past 175 years the planet Earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet." True's article set out to prove that the flying saucers carried interplanetary scouts who may have studied the earth's customs...
...Fixit. For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves. One rumor had him offering the foreign ministry to Elder Statesman Oswaldo Aranha. Said Aranha: "Pooh-pooh...