Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden with superfluous fortitude and increasing its weight by disguising his nobility with sophomoric sarcasm. Touted as a ladies' man because he once acted as co-respondent in divorce proceedings, he is pestered by the habitues of an insular country club in the Far East. The males suspect him of a willingness to make free with their wives and daughters, a suspicion which the wives and daughters gleefully share. Finally the hero lives up to his reputation, with the doctor's wife. The inference is that they elope toward Singapore...
...that his watch and that of his mechanic had stopped within a minute of the start, and that they had thrown them overboard! Nevertheless, the feeling that he had won by foul play where he knew he could not win by fair, persisted. Don was too honest even to suspect such a trick, and was an easy victim. It was suggested on many sides that the Trophy should be exhibited in the Yacht Club this year, covered with a black cloth. Kaye Don proved himself a thorough sportsman when he refused to defend himself or to accuse or criticize Wood...
...graft and little graft run through the entire commercial structure. In Graft in Business, published last week by Vanguard Press ($3), Author Flynn goes into the matter. Part of the book deals with petty graft by corporation officials, tells of no practices one does not know or suspect to exist. Typical example : a Victor Talking Machine Co. superintendent who changed glue brands when offered a 5% commission...
...strongly suspect Secretary Stimson of borrowing his "bathtub" analogy- from Secretary Mellon's experience with the bathtubs of the old Bull Hotel in Cambridge, England. I recently stayed there and largely failed to solve the intricacies of the 18-inch brass and rubber stoppers with the thumb screw attachment in the same three tubs which Mr. Mellon used, and of which the Dull Hotel is justly proud (TIME, Aug. 3). There seems to be no way to manipulate to prevent a slow but steady drain. But the Hull Hotel is one of the best and most comfortable hotels...
Though you might suspect Author Crawshay-Williams' motive in inviting you to peek through the keyholes of all these bedrooms, the sights he shows you are less salacious than salutary; they are by turns humorous, pathetic, depressing, always recognizably human scenes...