Word: suspects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...absurdly complicated plot, and that Lord Tilbury-a figure long familiar to addicts of Wodehumor-was, through a curious weakness in his otherwise adamantine character, about to become involved in that plot far beyond his dreams or his patience. Your sense of gratitude would be great because you would suspect, by the characteristic solemnity of its beginning, that the paragraph would end like this...
...Champion Camera-who last week was picking up change by personal appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said the Court: "Reluctantly does the court deny this application; for good reason exists to suspect the honesty and sincerity of the transfer. . . . Unfortunately for; the plaintiff, astute advice has kept the defendant, Camera, and his mentor, Soresi, within...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti called on "ouarized" Jean-Joseph Dauphin. Haitian doctors examined him and the ouarit bean. They suspect traces of cyanide in the bean, hope U. S. investigators will discover the cause of the transformation...
...Conference each will be allowed to make a 15-min. opening address which will embody the principal demands of each country. Running them off with clocklike regularity this would take up four eight-hour days (each address is immediately followed by translation). Veterans of other international assemblies suspect that the opening addresses will occupy at least a fortnight, with the world Press paying little attention. Meanwhile one man has taught the minor powers how to make their voices felt: Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia...
...highest poetry, Housman thinks, is not definable. No modern over-estimator of the 18th Century, he says: "When I hear anyone say, with defiant emphasis, that Pope was a poet, I suspect him of calling in ambiguity of language to promote confusion of thought." Most poetical of all poets, he thinks, was William Blake. As an example of "perfect poetry" he quotes a stanza from Samuel Daniel...