Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust and sectional suspicion Sheriff Scott procured his murder indictments while Libby Holman's friends talked bitterly of a "legal lynching...
...visit Ireland for the first time. He announced he felt it "his duty" to go, despite hard times, because the Irish hierarchy might feel disappointed if New York, largest U. S. archdiocese, were not represented by its Archbishop. With him went rich Papal Marquis George MacDonald. Depression and distrust of Irish political conditions had reduced the numbers of visitors hoped for, but at least 200,000 were expected from all parts of the world. Among these would be 33 archbishops (including St. Louis' Glennon, San Francisco's Auxiliary Archbishop Mitty), 158 bishops, eight assistant bishops, 15 vicars apostolic...
...mocking the accepted lies of the cigarette vendors are truly interpreted, an interval of relative honesty in advertising may be in the offing. In either case, gentlemanly perjury of the sort to which this company invited Mr. Lewis to sell his name cannot fail to draw the contempt and distrust of the sagacious reader upon the advertiser...
...filled Senate chamber. In his hand he held a speech, too important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee's recent investigation of foreign loans. He had precipitated that inquiry, had cross-examined...
...affair is more important than is at first apparent. It is understood that if the Governor chooses anyone outside Tammany, it would be a direct affront and an indication of his distrust of all that had to do with the organization. The result would probably be a breach between them. And since Roosevelt needs all the support his political parent can offer in the coming election, such a "snub" might prove disastrous...