Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread, comrades, so far that representatives of the Internationals have come to Spain to find out exactly how much truth there was in it, and they have told us personally: 'Since this has occurred, we cannot arouse the same enthusiasm abroad, among our own comrades, because they suspect that those who dominate here and those who have influence are-they say so openly- the Communist elements, and everyone wonders if Spain is to be aided so that afterwards the Communists may guide the destinies of Spain.' They have come to ask us this! And let it not surprise...
...touring the U. S. with his parents, Crown Prince Leopold greatly surprised correspondents on the royal special train by his democratic willingness to play poker, surprised them still further by quietly trimming them most of the time, always refused to say who taught him the game-a suspect being General Pershing...
Leslie Howard appears as an attractive and egotistical matinee idol. One may suspect that Mr. Howard was considerably amused by his role, which obviously is a burlesque of himself. He handles this difficult assignment with discretion, plays around good-naturedly with Shakespeare, and slyly recalls his own ill-fated venture with "Hamlet." Bette Davis plays Mr. Howard's occasional fiancee, and when she is not engaged in throwing furniture at him, she is crying her eyes out over his latest amour. The amour in this case is Olivia De Havilland who uncovers a flare for comedy and a winsome appeal...
...Dressed in my costume as the Venetian courtesan in The Tales of Hoffmann, I looked for all the world like one of Casanova's memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went...
Since Maurin is close to the "people," to the worker and farmers of America, his political ideas often diverge greatly to the left of those held by the hierarchy. He is thus suspect to many an archbishop or vicar-general. Although he is a layman, he seems to remind one of the Dean of Canterbury, of the Established Church, Canon Dick Sheppard, Dr. Reinheld Niebuhr, and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for he takes his Christianity just as seriously...