Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society. What they are rebelling against is archaic mumbo jumbo, moral emptiness and the theological echoes of once living faiths. They wish to make a faith of their own. And in it the elements of cooperativeness rather than acquisitiveness, science rather than mythology, realism rather than ritualism, will, I suspect, have a large part. They wish to start fresh. And the generation just ahead of them has not so much to be proud of in what it has made of the world that it should wish to gainsay them in their own new deal...
...Students suspect that the villian of the piece is attached to the Brattle Street Police Station, when actually the trouble is much nearer home. Aside from the expense and time wasted in court by students waiting to plead guilty, in inertia of University officials has given the local police a black eye which they do not deserve. Repeatedly it has been suggested both in these columns and by the police that the tracts of land surrounding the Business School and New Biological Institute be utilized for parking spaces...
...story, as everyone knows, tells what happens when a Habsburg archduke turned taxi-driver meets his former mistress at a party given for the fallen nobility in Frau Lucher's Viennese hotel. It takes one night and several bottles of brandy to make the archduke suspect that perhaps changing circumstance has made him less a Habsburg than a cabby in fancy dress; and to convince the mistress that her psychiatrist husband may not be taking his patients' fees under false pretences. As in many good comedies, it is the attenuated tragedy under the surface of Reunion in Vienna...
...Chicago kidnapping of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's son Jerome (TIME, April 24): Jerome's return early one morning. Factor claimed he had gulled the kidnappers by publishing a letter he had written to himself, boosting the ransom price. They began to suspect a traitor among themselves...
...miraculous detective bureau. Says he, contrary to fictioneers: "Since the . . . system utilizes all ten fingers for the classification and filing of prints, it is extremely difficult for the bureau to identify latent fingerprints found at the scenes of crimes, unless some data with reference to the names of the suspect or suspects involved, with descriptive information, are supplied...