Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months there has been less anti-Japanese terrorism in the Shanghai International Settlement than in Shanghai territory ruled exclusively by Japan. But Japanese suspect, with reason, that many of Japan's murdered Chinese puppets have been killed by assassins lying low in the Settlement...
There must be some strange twist in the minds of most people which causes them to ignore music which is offered free of charge. Perhaps they instinctively suspect, when something is proffered them gratis, that it is only because the donor feels that it is unsalable. Such concert-goers may be entirely right at times, for free concerts are sometimes merely trying grounds for new music and new performers. But, on the other hand, one should always remember that a sincere artist, considering himself an interpretative medium, is always eager to pass his music on to an appreciative audience...
Acquaintances suspect that Mayor-elect Maverick will take off from his new stance in a 1940 leap toward the U. S. Senate...
...dark, handsome Robert, not yet 20, put on his Boy Scout uniform, went out and held up a drugstore, took $14. He was identified and caught, sentenced to a reformatory. Mr. Burgunder began to suspect that there was a kink in his son's mind...
...York Enquirer. The Enquirer's headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin...