Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue, prompts me to end you herewith a page from the Congressional Record of Jan. 3, 1929, which includes a list of the United States Senators; and in alphabetical order appears the name of Senator Vare. . . . Your statement that Mr. VARE remained a Senator-suspect is not a fact, is untrue so far as developed facts appear, and has no place in on authentic account of this controversy...
...charges, as summed up last week in the report of Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject (as is Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois...
This is all pretty depressing. But, on reflection, our sympathies go out more to Mr. Pringle than to Yale. He seems to have been unfortunate in his contacts. We suspect that the typical Yale undergraduate is still almost indistinguishable from the typical Harvard man, or even from the typical Cornell man, and we like them all. We have yet to meet the undergraduate who would tolerate a "prominent" roommate whom he disliked. Doubtless the young Eli of to-day has less ambition to be a Jonathan Edwards than had the undergraduate of two centuries ago; but, after all, the colleges...
...Well, I suspect that those reasons did enter into it," said Senator Borah. "I should hope that if we sign this treaty we would be more vigilant in confining ourselves to actual attack and not sentimental attacks...
...cinema, once a suspect-competitor of the nickel sideshow, began its new phase in 1912 when Sarah Bernhardt, old and lame, said "Pictures are my one chance for immortality." At that time, Zukor, a 5 ft. 4 in. Jew from Ricse, Hungary, was running a movie theatre on Fourteenth Street, Manhattan. William A. Brady, his temporary partner, distrusted the new medium; so did most other producers and actors. Most of the theatrical people who, lacking other jobs, worked in pictures, tried out of shame to stay anonymous. Zukor told their names. On a scratch pad one night he wrote...