Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect to the wise and dangerous to the masses...
...Some 40 additional persons, many of high rank, were jailed or "unobtrusively guarded in their homes, to avoid scandal." One suspect, Deputy Franz Ulain, safe at Milan, foamed: "These counterfeiters are noble and venerable patriots. . . . I demand that Premier Count Bethlen be swept out of office for daring to arrest Hungarian heroes. . . . I demand that public admission be made of the fact that Hungary is still actually at war with France, and that the counterfeiting was a legitimate and laudable act of war. . . . The profits from the sale of the counterfeit money were being used solely to equip a Fascist...
...spectacle of too many gilded "amateurs" has spoiled the possibility of any such request being granted. People suspect a fake in the picture of the amateur athlete, burning with desire to do his duty by the public, yet faced by the necessities of bread and butter. Presumably, the amateur turns his back on Mammon and unselfishly offers his talents and his time on the altar of public service. Growing boys are crying out for an athletic example, old men's eyes will flash with ancient fire at the spectacle of his skill and might, young girls will realize that none...
...editors of the New Republic are interested in remedying a situation admittedly evil, rather than, as we suspect, in merely talking about it, they will float their bond issues and subscribe their dollars for the exploitation of a professional, and not a college, football team...
...assurance that TIME'S statements of fact be made as reasonably accurate as careful editing and repeated checking can make them. At any rate, if you must at times err, please do so as to facts upon which I am informed, as I dislike even to suspect that your fascinating statements relative to matters about which I know nothing are not always 100% correct...