Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been silenced since war began. Reason: an ordinary receiving set sends out radiations of its own that can be detected by an enemy submarine. Sailors chafe at this restriction because radioed baseball scores and news bulletins used to be one of the high spots of their day. Government officials suspect that they occasionally give their ships away by surreptitious tuning in, mistakenly supposing that if they keep volume low the enemy cannot hear them...
William Francis, 56, long and stringy, contrives to look more like an undertaker than a real one. But his friends recognize this as a mannerism which they suspect is partly affectation. It includes wearing shiny, patched clothes and shocking dinner parties with sardonic comments. Married to Manhattan Socialite Vera Cravath Larkin, daughter of the late, great lawyer Paul Cravath, he avoids society, but pops into it every once in a while, throws himself into a chair like an old rug, often turns out to be the lion of the party...
Where has the disease been all these years? First vague hints of its existence go back to 1872, and some doctors suspect it was prevalent though unidentified before the great flu epidemic of 1918. But pneumonitis first emerged in its present form as an epidemic in Honolulu...
...back-breaking "rheumatism"-which is a degenerative ailment of old age, rarely appears before 40. The cause is the normal wear & tear on the joints. Yet osteoarthritis afflicts some people who have never done a lick of work in their lives, while lifelong toilers often escape it. So doctors suspect a hereditary tendency-i.e., some folk are born with tough joints, others with weak ones...
...Such conditions as the author describes may be peculiar to one yard and, I suspect, may have been magnified out of proportion by an uninformed and mechanically unintelligible "greenhorn...