Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unalloyed virtues of the picture lie in the quality of its performances. Jane Wyman is completely winning as a student actress who tries to clear a murder suspect by impersonating the maid of a musicomedy star. Wilding plays the detective with quiet charm, and Todd's acting as the suspect will not let down moviegoers who liked him in The Hasty Heart. Comedian Sim makes his artful most of the heroine's eccentric father. If anyone steals the show, it is Veteran Dietrich. Dressed to kill and chanting languorous ballads in a husky off-key, she creates...
...disturbed by the current head-shearing fad in most women's colleges hereabouts--and I suspect throughout this fashion-mad country...
...driver until a crackup made a writer out of him, saves his sympathy for the Eskimos and his wrath for missionaries who, with "tea and keks," are trying to change the Eskimos' manners & morals. Readers who gobble up Author Ruesch's enticing fictional blubber-ball may never suspect that it is dialectical bear bait until the later pages, where an aged anga-kok (medicine man) sums up his people's primitive philosophy, and makes it sound as up-to-date as a modern university lecture by a materialist philosopher...
Scott said last night that "it seems reasonable to suspect that there are factors which the University may not have taken into consideration in making its decision...
...devil is active in Chatellerault, in Chinon and in Domfront, but above all he is active in Loudun." So said Rabelais four centuries ago; at least, that's what the people of Loudun say he said. Some people suspect that Loudun, a town of 5,313 in western France, is still a little proud of its reputation for casual wickedness. "I think," said a bookseller of Loudun last week, "it is because of our fine white wines. One can drink liters, like water, but suddenly it hits like a coup de fusil and even the old feel young...