Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek dialect. But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, on assembling the results of their observation in dramatic character, upon organizing it in dramatic action illumined by the accent and vernacular of today, they and the teacher who abets them are suspect. So-called English composition is encouraged and the drama of Greece and Old England. But the humanities themselves are not sufficiently human to include modern life and art. "Art," of course, is a big word. Very few of the plays written for the "47 Workshop" are even good theatre. The creative...
...short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. . . But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, or upon assembling the results of their observations in dramatic character. . . they, and the teacher who abets them, are suspect. New York Times...
...received the University kick-off they deftly concealed the ball under the back of the jersey of one of their players, and he jumped away to a touchdown, for no one could find he ball although Captain Marshall of the University did give chase, apparently the only player to suspect the ruse...
...pilgrim. It is said that the threadbare monks are stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more strongly than barrels of saints' rings and martyrs' knuckles...
Harper Brothers has issued a set of Arthur Guiterman's light verse in brick-red jackets; and I am reminded pleasantly, on a drab morning, of this slight, serious-minded humorist of quick movements and real wit. I suspect that every really funnyman must take himself seriously. Mr. Guiterman, of course, has not confined his writing purely to gay verses. He has had serious moments not without power. To be sure Your Puppy's Valentine is not deep; but there is a poem called The Pioneer which has much grace and beauty...