Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basketball fan, who found last year that he was being bilked by gangsters and crooked college boys, is a wide-eyed diehard. The fans may suspect any one of their current heroes of being on a gambler's payroll, but they are pouring back into the big-city arenas and college gyms in unprecedented numbers. Attendance figures, according to a United Press survey, are up by more than...
Detailed Description. In Lexington, Ky., after a swindled merchant set cops on the trail of a forger wearing a ragged coat fastened with an eightpenny nail, Suspect Brice Young protested: "It couldn't be me. My coat is fastened with tenpenny nail...
Experienced Hand. In Columbus, Ohio, forgery suspect George McCrimmon answered to the name of a fellow prisoner due to be freed, forged the other's signature on a release form, strolled out of jail...
...murder stories, Justice must find a way. In this case, however, Justice does injustice to the story. Merrill drinks poison which Miss Davis failed to use for suicide, and a veterinary unknowingly gives the same poison to her to revive her from a fainting spell. I suspect that this was arranged so that Bette could give her best hysterical laugh at the end of the film...
Just such snappish judgments by big-shot Americans . . . make the U.S. suspect or unpopular even among our most traditional and needed friends...