Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although I suspect that my own judgment of "The Moon is a Gong" may, if I see that production by the Dramatic Club, coincide with Mr. Morgan's prejudice, is it not a little hasty of Mr. Morgan to condemn the play in advance apparently on the sole ground that he does not approve of Mr. Dos Passes' opinions in Vanity Fair...
...people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that he did not read the papers and did not care. . . ." Genet's popularity made him a suspect; he was accused of inciting the people against the Government, forced to resign. At home, the guillotine waited; in the U. S., a comfortable exile. He died at Greenbush...
Three pickpockets went on business to a Jewish synagog in Manhattan. Pickpocket Levine (Jewish) warned Pickpockets Alternaro and Presco (Italians) to buy Jewish Bibles, which they did. The rabbi caused their arrest. "How did you suspect them," asked the Magistrate of the rabbi. "Alternaro and Presco took off their hats in the synagog," replied the rabbi...
That James Stephens and Michael , Arlen found Connelly a friend is an excellent commentary on the quality of his mind. Both Mr. Stephens and Mr. Arlen have a respect for chivalry and a love for fantasy that separates them from most present-day writers. I suspect that if Marc Connelly ever finds time to sit down and write prose fiction, he will find himself doing something of real importance. A little Irish blood goes a long way toward making a poet and I suppose there is Irish in Mr. Connelly (and in Mr. Marquis). If you are interested...
...tife various clubs and societies to which they belong are usually effected without a whimper of protest. They smile pleasantly, say "aye" when they are told to do so: and each votes for the officers that the man next to him puts down. But if for one moment they suspect that someone is trying to force their hand, then chaos reigns and the little demagogues of Government I rise in wrath and howl defiance...