Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Enameling & Stamping Co. is experiencing a situation closely resembling a South American revolution. A committee of stockholders has developed, due to a dislike or distrust of the company's present management. This body wrote a letter to President Thomas K. Niedringhaus containing charges against the management and demanding representation on the Board of Directors. The stockholders committee was headed by James Brown of Brown Bros...
...that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children's sweet faith was lessened and they were made to doubt and distrust. . . . Mother Goose was indeed a goose...
...parliamentary system, which has no roots in the political nature of the people, is universally distrusted by those who seek reform. The representative assembly has been used by unrecognized politicians as a springboard to project them into the charmed circle of successful ringsters. The policies of the country are dictated by alternating clans, surviving from the old classification of nobles, who use the imperial throne as a shrouding curtain for their intrigues. But the most ominous political portent is not distrust in the obviously transplanted institution of parliament, but the total absence of any temperate party which looks...
...time, however, when the moderate leaders of Japan, the nation which came off third in the Washington Naval agreement, are seeking by every means to allay Oriental distrust of America's naval ambitions, it is unfortunate that the chief executive should feel obliged to boast of a "naval rank, second to none". Japan's sensibilities, deeply outraged by the immigration insult, will store up the needless affront. Japanese pride, made anxious by the stabilization of naval ratios at 5-5-3, will not be allayed by this new demonstration, for it will not be perceived that...
Just why this silent opposition persists is difficult to understand. It may be a native distrust of the strange and new, or it may be an unconscious relie of the conventional Victorian point of view toward anything and everything in the slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legimacy as a means of artistic expression has been universally recognized, for some hundreds of years, he can be no better than a fool who denies the same legitimacy to a study of the mechanical...