Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year-old?" He is continually on the go, sleeps only three or four hours a night, has never had an operation or been seriously ill. He has all of his own teeth, although friends suspect that when he recently insisted on being driven into Manhattan without telling anyone where he was going, he went to a dentist to have a tooth pulled...
Hollywood has spent years seeking the bubble reputation for glamor. Now it has decided to kill the pretty illusions that have cost so many millions to maintain. The trouble is, the public began to suspect that Hollywood glamor was synonymous with loose living. Some moviemen believe that this suspicion, deepened by the congressional Red hunt last fall, is a factor in the current box-office slump...
...perhaps this avid desire for "a universal church" which caused the Webbs to be swept off their feet by the devout fervor of the founders of the Soviet Union. But in 1911, when this diary ends, the Webbs did not yet suspect the revolutionary upheavals that were to come. From her retreat in the "delightful countryside," Beatrice could look back over the furious past, and nostalgically recapture old memories of committees, boards, councils, intrigues and, above all, "the river Thames sweeping through the splendor and squalor of the birthplace of the 19th Century capitalist dictatorship...
...Many whodunit addicts think that a suspect cannot be held for murder unless there is a corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...
Loneliness Is Suspect. Author Gorer's central theme is that Americans are haunted by a dread of loneliness and isolation: "The absence of doors in all but the most private parts of most houses, the wedged-open doors of offices and studies, the shared bedrooms in colleges and boarding houses, the innumerable clubs and fraternal and patriotic associations, professional organizations, and conventions, the club cars on trains, the numberless opportunities and facilities given for casual conversation, the radio piped into every hotel bedroom, into many railway cars and automobiles, left on incessantly in the house.... Americans, psychiatrists as well...