Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will suffer at the hands of his real victim, Mr. LaGuardia, remains to be seen, but it is clear that he cannot but emerge from the New York campaign as that most inexcusable of offenders in a democracy, the man of mystery, the friend of none and the suspect of all. It is of small moment which game the Secretary has been playing; all the talent is against him, and will be against him through the battle, and he cannot explain himself to the public without losing the prospect of his mission. Perhaps the easy success to which any anti...
This sort of thing is unfair to the unsuspecting reader and viciously unfair to the author, who, I suspect, would prefer that his works were never read if they must first be emended by some virtuous Headmaster Bluenose bent on removing all traces of those ugly old Facts of Life. Is this a university or a boarding-school for neurotic girls? You men--especially you new men--who object to being treated like children will boycott courses where this disgusting practice obtains until it is removed. Sedgwick Mead...
...children except for their prematurely old faces, drawn into bitter lines by the strain of making weight. Jockey Westrope's face, snub-nosed and babyish, belies the age of 16 which he gave a year ago to get his apprentice's license. Riders who know him well suspect that he is really two years younger. Like his brother William, who died of injuries after a fall at Agua Caliente last year, Jack Westrope could ride as soon as he could walk. He went to Florida last winter as contract rider for a Texan named Oscar Foster...
...milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property of Rossetti. He often said he would marry her but put it off so long that when he finally did she was ungrateful and obviously dying. But she lived long enough to suspect Rossetti often of unfaithfulness, to bear him a still-born child, and to die at last of an overdose of laudanum. Safely dead, she became again his idol; he buried with her the only copy of his poems...
...suspect the second...