Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate case against Mr. Vare goes' back to his large campaign expenses in the Pennsylvania primary of 1926 and his election that autumn. Mr. Vare remained last week a Senator-elect, a Senator-suspect, a sick...
...repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister to Venezuela to land, "because I suspect that the fellow has yellow fever!"-an impish charge unsubstantiated by any fact...
...West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily to help Commerce Commissioner Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois get nominated and elected to the U. S. Senate, he was able to show that he had given also to the Democrats. Nevertheless, when Senator-Suspect Smith was rejected by the Senate last year, Mr. Insull shared his embarrassment...
...Lily Christine's pink and black jacket is a subtitle mentioning good woman; on her title page in pink fast deflowering to purple she nevertheless promises "a romance." This for Michael Arlen of the onetime vogue is an amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers...
...suspect that Philip Goodman who ... is ... expert at the consumption of food . . . must have interfered with the direction of Rainbow ... I shall not be astonished if I learn that the long wait after the second scene was due to his efforts to be helpful ... I suggest that Mr. Stallings and Mr. Hammerstein persuade Mr. Goodman to go to Italy for a month and fill himself with food so that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent...