Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France started him off a popular hero, elected him a Deputy, but he became suspect after he protested the King's execution. U. S. Ambassador Gouverneur Morris, paying off old grudges, was chiefly responsible for Paine's ten months in prison, his close escape from the guillotine, but it was Washington whom Paine blamed, accusing him of sacrificing their friendship for a treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when...
There was every reason this week to continue to suspect that the events at Sian, clouded by side issues of kidnapping, ransom and highjacking, were basically an exploration and feeling out of each other by the Chinese Communists and Dictator Chiang. Young Marshal Chang, after waiting around in Finance Minister Kung's house for four days, received from the Chinese Government full pardon and restoration of his civil rights, walked out scot free as the kidnapping profession's outstanding Boy Who Made Good...
...week after week newspapers dished up incidents from Mrs. Muench's past. At police headquarters they found a rogues' gallery portrait of Nellie Muench taken in 1919 when she was arrested in an alleged jewelry theft. They found a record of another arrest as a larceny suspect, and a report that had to do with an attempt to work the ancient badger game, another in which she was accused of planning a fake jewelry store holdup. News photographers dogged her footsteps, snapped her picture as she swore lustily at them. Once she carried a bag of flour which...
...been the drawback of so many British pictures in the past. Well-acted by conscientious members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions as a cinema capital, it suffers from a torpor so pronounced that U. S. audiences are likely to suspect that the murdered leading lady is not really dead but dozing. Good shot: Dolores Del Rio-whose next U. S. picture will be Devil's Playground-in a jealous rage...
...Austria's statute books is a similar law and Viennese have been arrested by hundreds for wearing white socks when the Austrian Police had reason to suspect that anyone under whose trousers could be found white socks was a Nazi...