Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embarrassed. I wondered a little, that my friend should ask such an obvious question, being more of a reader than she was. No doubt father and mother both explained afterward...
Vainly did French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand throw oil on troubled waters by supporting his Locarno policy. "It is only a beginning," he cried. "The road to peace is never the line of least resistance." But doubt remained as to whether or not "the beginning" were not the beginning of the end of Locarno...
...Gillette blades themselves, all doubt is dispelled. There the Gillette Co. abruptly says: . "Not to be resharpened." Nevertheless a certain bold percentage of Gillette users frequently have their blades honed and stropped, or do it themselves on machines made especially for that purpose...
...house, Bull is disturbed by only one loathsome thought. Suppose his sweetheart, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), and his regenerate drunkard protege, Rolls Royce (Clive Brook), had been the means of double-crossing him into the cuffs of the police? One hour before "burning" time, he breaks jail to settle this doubt, discovers that, although his thuglings have fallen in love right under his bristly chin, they have been loyal to him. Apparently all that really matters to Big Bull is his faith in his fellowmen, for he ambles back to the death cell, at peace with the world...
...They should reject any representations or opinions of others if involved in any doubt. They will be approached frequently with sug- gestions for investments that are not entitled to be relied upon from a business standpoint...