Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Suspect Deal With...
...Significance. Mr. Dibble tells a plain, straightforward story in a vigorous way. His vision is unclouded by prejudice, he is quick, observant, interested and interesting. His style is rather anecdotal than analytic, rather active than beautiful. Unassigned quotations are frequent. Meticulous accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen...
Fundamentalists who suspect that missionaries are too modern...
Concentrating on the conversation -which is steadily diverting and occasionally dazzling-one is led to suspect that Mr. Maugham, retiring after a particularly amusing dinner party, stopped Jong enough between his collar and his braces to jot down the smartest of the evening's causerie. On second thought, the play is altogether too smoothly starched for that. Mr. Maugham must have written it in a full dress suit...
...with liberal education rather than specialized vocations. It is a movement which I believe will grow. In the past, men of business have feared some lack of a steady habit of application among liberally-educated University graduates. Now they are finding that there is no reason to suspect this result: a man who has done well in one of the University's honor schools will probably do his work harder and faster than most men of his own age brought up in business...