Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe and the gratitude of the whole world is due at this time, in my opinion, to Hitler!" cried Lord Redesdale, to whom Lord Cecil dryly rejoined, ''If Lord Redesdale happened to be a Liberal, a Roman Catholic or a Jew in Austria, I very much doubt if he would talk...
Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...
...Further, the Rumanian Government affirmed that a letter from the Rome Butenko attesting that he "fled voluntarily" and was "not kidnapped" is in the same handwriting as that of the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires who was on duty in Bucharest. There does not seem to be any doubt that Butenko is Butenko and he is in Italy...
Next month Lowell House is planning to present an opera which merits considerable attention. Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is without doubt the greatest of English operas and may safely be ranked among the outstanding musical dramas of all time...
Thinking over the past, he did not doubt that he was an extraordinary individual, one that stood high above the rest of the world. Yet the world seemed to be getting the better of him before his career was half over. The financial situation had become intolerable when a letter arrived from his friend Liszt saying that he had no cash on hand...