Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money cannot be handled in the dark without stirring some people's suspicions. To dissipate suspicion, President Hoover, by executive order, last week, lifted the curtain of secrecy from the Treasury's income tax operations, sufficiently to reveal the important details of all tax refunds above $20,000. It was a move long demanded by progressives and Democrats in Congress and as long opposed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. The White House ordered the new policy; the Treasury obediently executed...
...after the fire in the Georgian Cafeteria on Wednesday were overshadowed in importance last night. A uniformed fireman knocked at the door of the Hasty Pudding clubhouse and wanted to know when "Fireman, Save My Child" would first he played in Cambridge. He was told. He then confided the suspicion that lay behind such fraternality...
...recurrence is obvious; these elements are the ones which interest the public and sell the books, and the author has no choice but to include them. Thus we have the love affair between the two principles, gradually developing and providing the happy ending, the clever sleuth, the shifting of suspicion, and finally the fastening of diabolical guilt upon one totally unsuspected. These form' the background which one expects to encounter when reading a mystery story, and they really have but little to do with the effectiveness of the book...
...proverbial amateur detective proves his excellence in the face of five ship's passengers who confess to the murder, and several others who are under suspicion, in Murder at Sea (Minton, Balch...
...sent Gale back to his passionate young wife, a husband and yet not a husband. For several years they stuck it out, till cumulative suspicion and repression hurled Justine into the arms of a lover, and Gale to the distractions of Spain. The lover proved less satisfying than the bull-fight-not the conventional scarlet-cloaked trickery, but a duel during which Gale rode bareback, crashing down gorges, wallowing through torrents, staggering up embankments, till finally he brought the bull to its knees...