Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington as a promising youngster. Last December he began to get into scrapes. When he got started on his honeymoon four weeks ago, Seattle knew its Congressman was on a rare bender (TIME, May 11). But not until last week, when he returned to Washington, did Seattle begin to suspect that its man was turning from a besotted funster into a raving dipsomaniac. Events of 96 lunatic hours which culminated in Congressman Zioncheck's removal to Gallinger Municipal Hospital for mental observation...
Hero of the tale is Kassner, a Communist intellectual, an important party organizer, who has just been arrested by the Nazis. He has false identification papers, and luckily does not much resemble the photograph of himself his captors compare him with. But they suspect him of being Kassner, and he knows if he admits his identity he will be killed. Be cause they are not perfectly sure who he is, the Nazis at the concentration camp do not kill him out of hand but shut him up in solitary confinement. Now & then S. A. guards come into his cell...
...persons suspect how many suicides in the true sense of the word are concealed behind our numerous automobile accidents. The practicing psychiatrist is only too familiar with the neurotic and ostensibly normal individual who labors under the pressure of a violent but unconscious trend of self-destruction, and who either runs his automobile into a telegraph pole or lets himself be run over by an approaching car."-Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, Manhattan...
...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
...collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below I for his god at 16. An amiable skeptic, short, fat. boyish to look at, he is fond of practical jokes. Some suspect his philological delvings are merely a form of involved japery. but fellow-philologists take him seriously, call him the authority on U. S. English...