Word: suspectedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lecture. When the police took over, Roumeguere was suspect No. 1. He went on a hunger strike to sharpen his wits, parried all questions with ease. Then he lectured his interrogators on Existentialism. "How does it happen," the police commissioner bellowed, "that you know such crazy people?" Said Roumeguere: "I am a psychiatrist. It is my business to know crazy people. But how about the people you associate with? Aren't most of them criminals?" In a few days, Roumeguere was turned loose...
...short, sirs, I suspect you are a fraud. Lyle Glazier. Instructor In English...
...19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian in its classical simplicity, Wagnerian in the way it jumps...
...Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...
First there had been Hilda Kruger, the actress. Then came Hilda, the seductive, blonde spy suspect. Now Mexico was getting used to Hilda, the writer. Last week her second book (Eliza Lynch or Tragic Destiny) hit the stands. It was a gushing tribute to Eliza Alicia Lynch, the tempestuous, French-Irish mistress of 19th Century Paraguayan Dictator Francisco Solano...