Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning when the old Italian returns, raps on the shutters and lets in the sun; and bunch by bunch takes the truant roses to the fountain to wash their sleepy faces, splashing water also on his own, does he ever guess their night's sweet escapade? I suspect he does, but being a bit of a poet himself says nothing: only this little song: "Roses, Roses, Roses: Fresh, young roses." At least so it seems...
...also known by a few that baseball permeates Harvard, Hawk-eyes may suspect such a fact by the frequent smack of ball against glove on the greens of the Houses, especially by the activity on Soldier's Field. Baseball is good at Harvard, too, and for several years Cambridge teams have sparkled in collegiate competition. It may be true that Harvard has not the best diamond and bleachers in the world, that this year the nine has given us a disappointing start; but considering that the Mayor of Harvard might have thrown the first ball...
...return of War-great General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff from the obscurity of a suspect crackbrain to official sanity just as sound as any other German's nowadays, and also to official greatness, was accomplished last week by Adolf Hitler. He and Ludendorff conspired together for the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, marching down the street at the head of their henchmen toward Power- they hoped. When police began shooting to disrupt the putsch, they carefully did not aim at Hero Ludendorff who walked through their fusillade iron-faced, nor was Herr Hitler shot. Knowing that the police...
...canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec, Me.; how it got a 3% allowance on canned cherries from an Alton, N. Y. packer. Not only did the Commission suspect discrimination: it looked as if A. & P. had merely substituted a 3% or 4% discount for the old 3% or 4% brokerage allowance it used to ask and receive. Under the new law a seller may not pay a buyer a commission in any form whatever...
...millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour we went on in this way, shouting or firing at lighted windows, racing through suspect streets. No one fired on us, thank God! Then they drove us home, running the car right onto the pavement a yard from the hotel door...