Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressional competition, however, seems to be well started, and we suspect that the honorable senators would regard this lobby with grave disapproval, as an attempt to impinge on their senatorial rights and privileges. The pity is that the radio, so justly famed for providing the populace with what, they want, is not yet installed in our parliamentary chambers...
...from Professor Copeland's library will go on sale at the Harvard Cooperative Society today. The bare announcement ought to be enough. I don't know why Professor Copeland's books--some of them--are to be sold. He didn't tell me, and I didn't ask. I suspect he hasn't room for them all. I don't know how he made his choice, either, or the title of any single one of them. It does not matter. (Many, certainly, are duplicates...
Films were supposed to be made only when Judge Trenchard was not on the bench. But the dignified old judge must have been the only person connected with the trial who did not suspect that the camera was turning whenever an important witness was on the stand. Among newsmen, who could hear the motor being started and stopped by remote control, it was an open secret. A courtroom guard was stationed hardly a dozen feet from the camera. Counsel for both sides could easily have been aware that their examination of Col. Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh, Dr. Condon and Defendant Hauptmann...
...even the most cynical broker in Mincing Lane had reason to suspect the honesty of Strauss & Co. Its nominal head and biggest stockholder, old Edward Anthony Strauss, was educated at King's College, is a member of Parliament from North Southwark. He inherited Strauss & Co. from his father, built it up into one of London's five biggest commodity houses, doing an extensive business in castor seeds, linseeds, peanuts. Edward Anthony Strauss and his colleagues had simply made the mistake of going short of peanuts. Instead of the surplus they had anticipated, there was an acute decline...
...spite of this, a few members of Lowell House have decided to grant the President's wish. Informed quarters suspect a more practical purpose. According to them, it is hoped that the President of the United States will lend his support to the pleas of quite des- perate Bellboys that the bells be exiled to the basement to Memorial Hall, where they can be tolled during examination periods...