Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiters Identify Suspect...
...take short-hand and did not type very well. When the broker (John T. Murray) tries to make love to her, Helen runs out of the house. She goes back later for her hat, coat and purse and finds the broker lying murdered and herself the leading suspect...
...reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will not be a conservatory. True enough, Margo is shown waiting for her brother in a tawdry night club...
After Paris police had confided to the press that their chief Royalist plot-suspect, Eugène Deloncle, was apparently in Rome, having "fled to the Fascist Capital," they observed him strolling across a Paris square, arrested him forthwith. A flying squad of detectives dashed from Marseille 120 miles to raid, at Cannes, the jewelry shop kept by a brother of M. Deloncle, discovered and seized three sabres. Papers seized by the police, who have been calling their suspects collectively Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men"), mentioned a Comité Secret d'Action Révolutionnaire or C.S.A.R. Promptly...
...Sibelius is cagey. Some have called him Sphinxlike, and he has found the description a great convenience. Nowadays, when English-speaking visitors get too inquisitive about how he composes or when his next symphony will be finished, he replies with regretful, laconic shrug: "I, Sphinx." There are grounds to suspect that he has quantities of early unpublished compositions stored about the house, that he has already outlined the movements of a Ninth Symphony in addition to those of his forthcoming Eighth. A visitor's inquisitiveness invariably brings the same Finnish shrug, the favorite, inevitable reply...