Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suited to music in the minor mood. There are basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that...
...traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic. A little publicity is always a profitable thing especially when connected with such a worthy cause. Intensive propaganda of this type may fill the air with sound and fury for a short time, but the lasting effects are decidedly limited...
...criticizes the system of tariff adjustment and refers to it as proceeding in a "haphazard and irresponsible fashion." "To give the farmers higher duties on swine, corn, and meat is a continuation of the old process of trying to throw dust in their eyes." "One is often led to suspect that the pervading process of log-rolling and swapping has ended in changes which some particular domestic interest and its Congressional representative had at heart...
...London on Nov. 12 the MacDonald Government is scheduled to sit down with potent, brunet gentlemen to the momentous Indian Round Table Conference (see p. 20). Sixty-nine million Indians are Moslems. Most of their leaders fiercely suspect that British Governments over a period of years have been in a sort of white-man's-plot with the 172,000 Palestine Jews against the 750,000 Palestine Arabs, religious brothers of India's Moslems. Only recently, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in London, did his fiery best to put the fear of Allah into Great Britain...
...method: protracted questioning, sometimes going on continuously for over 24 hours, keeping the prisoner awake, thirsty, hungry. Usual method: beating the prisoner about the head and neck with lengths of rubber hose (which leave no bruises). If that fails to work, fists, boots, bats, lighted cigars may jog the suspect's memory. Scars or bruises are explained by saying the prisoner "fell downstairs." But Lavine tells of other refinements: "I have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from his mouth; I have seen another put in a dentist's chair...