Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Gielgud's Shakespeare's Ages of Man is a solo recital of some thirty speeches from the plays and about a dozen sonnets--which are read entire. I suspect that the production was invented as a vehicle for making money...
Three of the missing scooters were taken from the Law School area, one from the Yard, and four from the Houses. In several instances, the thieves had smashed the safety device locking the steering mechanism. University Police do not suspect teenagers primarily, since breaking the locks calls for considerable strength...
...Louis' coed Washington University, Fannie did not participate in "the 'spooning' that I had reason to suspect went on between students." Instead she wrote blank verse. Visiting Manhattan with her father, Fannie looked down from a hotel window and saw her future. People, she remembers, were "flowing like slow molasses, yet full of heartbeat and fear and hope and power and-infinity. Those people down there were composed of persons." She would have to live in New York, find the persons among the people, glaze them with her words...
Line Stealers. The intrigue and double-dealing became almost a part of the actors' lives. They began to suspect each other of stealing lines. Eli Wallach, playing Poskrebyshev, Stalin's secretary, exploded and complained that his part had been cut to nothing. "The audience would have a better show if they watched the rehearsals," cracked an amused technician. "There's more drawing aside and whispering here than I've ever seen. Probably more than there ever was in the Kremlin...
Last week the district attorney announced the shocking news-little Dean was the No. 1 suspect. He had made three separate "statements" ("I stabbed Dad first, then Mom"). He had planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later...