Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little did Herbert Cooper of Brooklyn, Benjamin McReynolds of St. Louis, James Carson of Philadelphia, John Atwater of Rockville Centre, L. I., and seven other men in evening dress suspect when they joyfully and separately entered the Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway one night last week, that they would soon be hustled out as subjects for a prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor...
...likes to lick her kittens, but her behavior to them is not in any way similar to her behavior in the presence of a tom. Yet I feel that Dr. Freud, watching her physical caresses of her offspring, would suspect her of incestuous longings. The Oedipus complex, where it occurs, is always caused by a wrong attitude, in the mother-an attitude mainly, of seeking from children a spurious imitation of satisfactions only fully derivable from sexual relations between adults...
Justly or unjustly, U. S. journalists suspect that the situation might have been different had the U. S. delegation's publicity been put in other hands than those of Arthur Wilson Page. Mr. Page is vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (cofounder of, though no longer officially connected with Radio Corp.), son of late great Ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Hines Page...
...years of service with the Detroit police department, Otto Fichl has been charmed, massaged, initiated, ordered to take ''treatments," scraped about the ears, hexed, advised to leave the country, psychoanalyzed, fiddled with by medicine men, gypsies, witches, etc., etc. When put upon the trail of a suspect, Otto Fichl uses his native German accent, saying "I vunder vat is der trouble." Stupid in appearance, equipped with a worker's badge, it is his business to be the dupe of any faker. After paying "Dr." Kejna $5 for telling him that he needed $168 worth of dentistry, Otto...
...amateur shop-lifters who surreptitiously smuggle books from the open shelves of Widener Library Viewed from the impersonal stand-point, the existence of such a number of gentlemen of easy conscience is amazing, and the losses, which average over 300 books per year, are far greater than one would suspect. From the strictly personal standpoint, there is absolutely nothing more annoying or futile than searching on the shelves for books which have already clandestinely disappeared...