Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarkably late hour last night, the steamroller had not been towed away, neither had the malefactor presented himself to the indignant Colonel. However, the alert student body had begun to suspect that the deed was but a prank on the part of one of Harvard's inveterate wags...
...smiling, quiet-spoken, curly-haired youth of 21, Stan Kostka has been dubbed "King Kong" by his hometown sportswriters because he is wedge-shaped and his arms seem to hang, apelike, below his knees. Only 5 ft. 10½ in., his official weight is 210 lb. Rival coaches suspect that this is possibly some 20 lb. short of reality...
...Baltimore Sun recorded the operation as for gallstones. But the would-be President of the Philippine Islands would have no truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank...
...down the table came the cry of "Hurrah" as someone spied the steaming dish of,--(Lucille, what was it they had for a vegetable). Then came the dessert, pride of the Dining Hall Staff and so temptingly put forth that we suspect that Mr. Waistcoat had made a special attempt to spur our boys to victory. It was Harlequin ice cream, and all the boys knew what that meant. Such a combination of flavors, and all so tasty...
...comparison with those of Arturo Toscanini. Stokowski's position in Philadelphia was strengthened materially when his great admirer Curtis Bok lately became president of the Orchestra.* And it is an open secret that Manager Judson is through after this season whether his opera scheme works or not. Philadelphians suspect that smart Esther Everett Lape is being groomed for his job. They know she is no ordinary secretary. For eleven years she has been the brains of the Bok-endowed American Foundation, promoting Peace, the World Court and the recognition of Soviet Russia...