Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler for one year, paying the sum of one hundred dollars for every act of unsubordination. The bill runs high. Johns is subjected to every indignity, including a meeting with his flancee in his houseman's garb, until he arouses his master's suspicion by being polite. The discovery that the contract is illegal is a cue for everybody to rejoice and join, in the finale...
...kept under guard during the entire time of the trial. Said he: "We make this motion because of the tremendous importance of the case . . . and because it is first a charge of improper use of money, which amounts to bribery . . . and that no carping criticism and no breath of suspicion can be said, rightly or wrongly, to have interfered with the proper functioning of the machinery of justice in this case...
...Suspicion Shifted to Daugherty
...result of all these cases investigated by the Senate Committee; the wind of suspicion shifted to Attorney General Daugherty. He was tried for contempt of court; and shortly afterwards M. A. Daugherty, and Eing were calloff to the stand on a bribery charge in the Alien Property Custodian question...
...Proud Woman. Playwright Richman starts out to write a "character comedy." The story: a provincial maid, about to wed a wealthy Manhattanite, finds all her hopes, plans, thoughts, poisoned by the arrival of her sister who brings a small-town suspicion to the guileless urbanity of the metropolis. Near the end, the sister's meretricious snooping is smartly smacked down; marriage negotiations are resumed. The "comedy of character" fails to concentrate on one principal character. Little episodes of suspicion are heaped, one upon the other, to build up a mound of irritation, but not a real climax. No single...