Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, they really did have a fence at Yale. Heretofore, one was always hounded by the suspicion that that fence was another photographer's trick thrust in, like painted clouds, to give atmosphere. But it was a regular fence after all. The joke...
This is all highly gratifying. We had feared out this way that the eastern fountains of learning were drying up. We had harbored the suspicion that youth in the east was, if not dead, at least pale and specter-thin. We saw decadence where once had been virility. We remembered recent intersectional games and we thought that down east they had too much blue blood and not enough...
This may serve to explain the Oxford man's innate suspicion of education by lectures, which he regards as a form of persecution depriving him of the right to hit back when provoked. The essence of his own method of education is best expressed by the common phrase that So-and-so is "reading" for honours in history; it may also be illustrated by the statement in "Who's Who" of a distinguished scholar hailing from Eton and Oxford that he was "self-educated...
...quinquennial of the International Council of Women met in Washington, D. C. (TIME, May 11), under fire of suspicion. At first it was disorganized by jealousy and ridicule...
...from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment as such, was our horrid suspicion that Mr. Frank Craven wrote the play more for the enjoyment of the large crowd that so obviously did enjoy it, than for any purpose of poking fun at the way we moderns live our lives...