Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have good reason to suspect that the inscrutable Ethel Vance counted upon Mr. Louis B. Mayer to read, and approve of, "Escape." The story of a woman's rescue from a Nazi concentration camp was bound to fit in beautifully with Hollywood's new taste for social significance; and filmed with the inimitable MGM touch of authenticity, it could not miss its mark. It did not, but neither did it displace "The Mortal Storm" as by far the most credible and exciting Nazi-blaster ever flashed across the American screen...
...only guess what is happening to them. Vague talk of "Morale" is all that we can gather about Germany and Britain. We are told that the French are starving, but we are told in statistical terms that convey no connotations of human suffering. Belgium, Holland, and Poland we suspect to be wastelands. The latest tragedy, the Rumanian cartilage, has been received in this country with calmness and even with rejoicing...
...partner suffers from rheumatic heart disease (which doctors suspect is infectious), the other might conceivably catch it. But most other forms of heart trouble are organic, noninfectious. As far as doctors know, so is cancer. Why husbands & wives should suffer these diseases together is a great mystery. Dr. Ciocco, who as a statistician is no sentimentalist, finds the mystery "immediately discouraging...
...Wake Up, Sluggards," headlined the Express. Observers began to suspect that under their grim, gritty exteriors, Britain's war leaders-no masochists such as the Schwarze Korps described-were beginning to look anxiously and beseechingly toward the U. S. There, airplane production was still small. (This winter probably less than 400 U. S. planes a month can be built for Britain, which wants thousands.) Thence, not even 25 old Flying Fortresses were yet forthcoming. In Boston, Mass., Sir Walter Thomas Layton of the Ministry of Supply spoke an appeal that was clearly a warning. Said...
...demonstrating" that blind John Milton (like deaf Ludwig van Beethoven) suffered from hereditary syphilis. Diagnostician Moorman finds Milton tuberculous. Other famous consumptives: Pope, Dr. Johnson, Shelley, Goethe, Schiller, Descartes, Balzac, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Chekhov, Dostoevski, a brow-wrinkling list of other writers and thinkers. Doctors suspect that tuberculosis develops genius because 1) apprehension of death inspires a burning awareness of life's beauty, significance, transience, 2) the bacillus breeds restlessness and an intoxicated hypersensitiveness...