Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckwheat is highly suspect these days in Britain because it is off the ration and fetches the highest grain price as a scarce and valuable food for poultry, pigs and cattle. At the current price level (80 shillings per 56-lb. sack), Dennis had nearly ?3,000 worth in his 20-acre field. He could not use it all for his 200 chickens and herd of pigs. Was he flouting the County Agricultural Committee's orders so that he could sell the buckwheat in the black market...
...prize brood mare, once laid down $62,500 for a one-fourth interest in the imported stallion Blenheim II (Whirlaway's daddy). But a basic ingredient in the Wright recipe is his trainers, the Jones boys-old Ben and young Jimmy. Rival trainers sometimes suspect the Joneses of getting results by mirrors and magic. But they are willing to pass their secret on to anybody. Says Jimmy: "You figure not only on a horse's speed, stamina and breeding, but on his personality-they're like humans, you know...
That kind of news item, and such headlines as BILL CAREY'S PANTS FOUND AT SABUTTUS, sometimes makes the 1,500 Down-East readers of the Lisbon Falls (Me.) Enterprise suspect that their weekly is pulling their legs. But his tongue-in-cheek reporting, besides winning Editor-Author (Farmer Takes a Wife) John Gould, 38, a reputation as a Yankee humorist, has brought his weekly 1,000 "foreign" subscribers from other parts...
Electric shock treatments have apparently been successful in treating some forms of insanity, but doctors are beginning to suspect that the "cure" may be worse than the disease. The treatment, a jolting shot of high-powered current through the brain, causes convulsions that may dislocate the patient's jaw, break his bones, or even kill...
Clearly, Detective Bascou decided, an inside job. Methodically he narrowed the suspects down to one: the only person present when each of the deaths occurred. His suspect was Head Nurse Demussy. He also dredged up what looked like a macabre motive: the nurse's divorced husband said that she was physically incapable of bearing children. Had she committed 17 mad murders of vengeance against women undergoing operations to make child-bearing possible? Nurse Demussy, after 22 solid hours of questioning, did not give the detective's theory much encouragement. Said she: "Do I look like a monster...