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Word: suspects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they don't even have to be crimes of passion. If it's just a nice clean, complete job, like a compulsory quadruple crossing of the Styx, it's enough to ensure most of the front page of the Hub City's news vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently shocked when one of their fellow leaves his earthly vessel. We think they sit around waiting for some one to go in a particularly violent, or novel manner and then start to work...

Author: By Arabi Pasha, | Title: Off Key | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

With the experience of a great K. C., eminent Norman Birkett, after fencing with the judge for just the psychologically right number of minutes, stated bluntly that Mrs. Simpson had gone to Ipswich for exactly the reasons the Court seemed to suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Knob-Head | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...general practitioners can recognize the early signs of cancer when they see them. But they have been taught - as the Women's Field Army is out to teach women - to suspect the possibilities of cancer when a sore refuses to heal; when a lump forms in any part of the body, particularly the breast; when the uterus bleeds persistently or irregularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Army | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...sculptor, like so many people who are not sculptors, sometimes eats nuts. Almost every day, however, in the presence of witnesses too, Bufano eats spaghetti and beef. There are never any cheers, no amazement. At the table, as a matter of fact, many people would not suspect that Bufano is one of the greatest living sculptors. Also, the model for Bufano's St. Francis was not my friend Joseph Danysh, Regional Adviser for The Federal Art Project on the West Coast. The model was St. Francis-inwardly, outwardly, materially, and in spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...years afterwards the Fall River Globe kept the bloody memory of Aug. 4 alive, every year on that date ran a thinly veiled attack on Lizzie Borden. Fall River citizens shunned her on the street. She changed her name to Lizbeth, but refused to move away. Did Sister Emma suspect her? No one knows. They lived together for eleven years, then Emma left her, never saw Lizzie again. When they died, in the same year (1927), they were buried in the Fall River cemetery alongside the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forty Whacks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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