Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class...
...college refuse of take much thought for the future. The present is too engrossing, the future, hazier perhaps that it ought to be, is vaguely understood to be full of various unpleasantnesses which will be sad enough when encountered. Most undergraduates have a shrewd suspicion that alumni associations exist for the purpose of collection debts incurred in happier days and they have not yet arrived at the stage where an annual dinner or weekly luncheon holds the essence of the glory that was college...
Although there is a current feeling that one hundred million dollars can't be wrong and that even three million is very effective in its way, there is still strong suspicion that one million dollars leaves room for doubt. So, climbing down the ladder of material love one is forced to a consideration of the "Ladder" itself. Opening after what is termed in the advertisements as a two year engagement in New York, the dramatic composition of this name is attracting curiosity seekers at top prices of one dollar and a half. Such a substantial increase over the free...
...Briand added an amazing postscript, rumors of which gave rise to the suspicion that Britain and France had concluded a formal entente. Briand's postscript : "Whatever the result, even should our hopes prove illusory, the two Governments would none the less be under the urgent obligation to act in concert either to ensure success by other means or to adopt a common policy so as to deal with the difficulties which would inevitably arise...
Naturally an even more potent fulmination burst from the Liberal Daily News: " 'The White Paper' is a record of bungling procedure unworthy of the collective intelligence of a home for mental defectives. It has excited the justifiable suspicion of the civilized world...