Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Echo's girl. Lon Chaney, speaking as ventriloquist, parrot, old lady or Echo, is as successful in disguising his vocal cords as he has always been in distorting his appearance. Best sound: the break in Mrs. O'Grady's voice which leads a suspicious lawyer to suspect her true character, whisk...
After 24 hours of the kind of treatment police know how to give a suspect, Peter Kuerten confessed to some seven murders and six attacks on Düsseldorf women and girls. Since this would account for more than half the "vampire crimes," the police called it a day, gave their well-badgered prisoner a rest. Said he: "The quicker I lose my head now, the happier I shall...
When Senator Hiram Johnson kept calling more and more naval officers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify against the London Treaty, President Hoover last week began to suspect a subtle filibuster was in progress to block ratification of the Pact at this session. The President has gained enough knowledge of practical politics to realize that delay feeds the fires of Opposition. Sternly he spoke out his displeasure...
Citizens of Haiti who suspect that their newly elected President Eugene Roy is "a tool of Wall Street and Washington" had their worst fears confirmed last week when he began to act in a strange, un-Haitian fashion...
...Lost Sheep. If a Methodist minister should unwittingly rent a house which had but recently been evacuated by a procuress and six employes, the situation might contain much potential coarse merriment. Playwright Belford Forrest, having conceived of such a plan, made sure that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three acts of a play which he called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus) and three comely daughters to a recently abandoned bordello in Higher Hempstead, Middlesex, England. So that...