Word: distrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folly and danger of such a reversion to pre-war distrust need no elaboration. Even if, however, the peril to friendly understanding between two powerful nations latent in this attitude of suspicion be over-looked, it must yet be regretted that the Transcript chose to strike so discordant a note in a day of general welcome and rejoicing...
...prejudice against him which is difficult to remove by explanations, especially since he is lined up against them on the McNary-Haugen bill. The Republican big business men of the East have, so far as one can ascertain their state of mind, a rather subtle but deep distrust of his temperament and his philosophy. They seem to feel that Mr. Hoover thinks too highly of his own judgment in business affairs and that his judgment is not so good as it is supposed to be. They think there is something incalculable, headstrong, moody, in Mr. Hoover's temperament which...
...theatregoers who wince when they see, propped up on the stage, a cardboard automobile. To them, this frail vehicle is a symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story...
...rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid tragedy...
...Germans however are stricter and need a more definite tendency than mere unity of purpose. It is best not to speak of those nationalistic and militaristic groups that unite in hatred of France; it is this group, strong in sport and materialism, that looks with distrust upon any movement tending to ward the liberation of thought and spirit...