Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night clubs, horse-races and a dancing class, gargling quiet wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line for his own epitaph: "Died in his infancy...
...moves restlessly about the floor dressed usually in grey with a dark blue shirt. He has a country place near Chicago where he shoots pheasants, a yacht upon which he winters in Florida. Associates who see much of him but know little expect more Howell news before long. They suspect he also has some bears by the tail in cotton...
...Black Camel (Fox) is an amusing mystery story in which the corpse is that of a cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample...
...reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author Browne. "The extravagance of his belief in the innate wickedness of mankind leads one to suspect that he may have suffered from some psychic maladjustment. Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship to his mother. . . ." The period of troublous popes (904-963) he says "is often spoken of even by Catholic historians as the Papal Pornocracy;" but he does not credit...
Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...