Word: distrustfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starr & Frost provided watches and cigaret-cases. Mrs. Clarence Mackay got her husband to let him send Postal telegrams for nothing. Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave him passes on their husbands' railroads. He advised women on their clothes and social affairs and husbands did not distrust him. Among multimillionaires who, as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr says, "might hold up the market but could not prevent conversation slumping heavily at their own tables." Lehr's levity and social resourcefulness made him a valued companion, although malicious society writers sometimes made fun of his spectacular dress, his talent...
...with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand Celine's grim Journey to the End of the Night. But the War made him a soldier whose kingdom was occupied by the enemy, and peace left him with an exhausted country, a deep distrust of his subjects, a painful inability to make or keep friends, a royal victim of the post-War melancholy that Author d'Ydewalle calls "world-sickness...
...away. Amateur Detectives Brandstatter and Quadratstein led Gutwirth on, posed as buyers until they got in touch with Scotland Yard. Coached by detectives, a French diamond merchant carried on intricate negotiations with the thieves, bargained and made conditions of sales like a diplomat at a peace conference. "Cammi" Grizzard distrusted the merchant, the merchant distrusted the police, and, as "Cammi" evaded one trap after another, the police began to distrust their own agents. After "Cammi" Grizzard spotted four Scotland Yard men at a place where the jewels were to be transferred, he set his spies to shadowing the detectives. Scotland...
...curious telescoping of events and ideas, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. They, under Judge Rutherford's leadership, distrust formalized religion, lump clergymen with financiers, politicians, the League of Nations and Lucifer, the last of whom they believe to be actively at large. In their scrutinies of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have concluded that three "cosmos" divide history. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II ended in 1914. The Bible Students once predicted that Cosmos III would end with the Kingdom of God in 2874 but currently they...
French and Russian distrust of Adolf Hitler's Germany hastened the signing last fortnight of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia (TiME, May 13). Last week France, which cherishes its old alliance with Poland even more than its new one with Russia, lost no time in trying to fix up one of the flaws in the new treaty setup, a flaw caused by the fact that Poland's Dictator Pilsudski dis- trusted Russia and rather liked Germany. To Foreign Minister Pierre Laval fell the chore of explaining the innocence of the Franco-Russian treaty...