Word: distrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government by injunction must cease if government by law is to function unchallenged. The way equity courts have used injunctions in industrial disputes has created in the minds of wage earners a general distrust of our courts. Equity courts are without authority, constitutional or statutory, to interfere with or infringe upon government...
...spasmodic spurts he tells the intimate story of a sensitive boy struggling to become a writer in the face of physical frailty and parental distrust, in mean towns built beside buffalo wallows. Beneath the burden runs a hysterically bitter ground-bass-a dirge for everything Puritan-and snarling discords to the effect that constipation was the pioneers' curse; that their children were rickety, their politics poltroonish, their women spavined, their teeth acid, their minds (including the author's) stunted and deranged, all because they failed to raise cabbages and take lime into their systems...
Since this plan seemed to offer France her great desideratum - ready cash for stabilizing the franc - Premier Poincare stomached his hostility and distrust toward Germany. While a multitude of technical details remained to be negotiated, acceptance by France of Thoiry seemed assured. Acceptance by Germany was deemed a foregone conclusion and followed a few days later. Peace hovered...
...Hall has welcomed Oxford and Cambridge debaters in regular annual sequence. Audiences have listened in amused complaisance, marveling at the wit and sparkle of the English speakers, and then staunchly voted for the solid legal points of our opposition. It is not patriotism, it is rather a deep-seated distrust of what is clever...
...easily dismissed. Mr. Mencken may ignore it, laugh it off, or, if he chooses, attempt to prove its falsity. In a treacherous mood he may even admit its truth. But the second attack will linger maliciously in the memory of the public for it gives rise to a faint distrust in Mr. Mencken's evil genius...