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People who gossip are saying that..., there is a rumor going around that...
[…] the “New Amazon,” who word had it, could “outdrink, outswear, [and] outswagger the men.”
2009, Catherine S. Ramírez, The Woman in the Zoot Suit, page 66:Word has it you're looking for a new job.