Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular incident last week caused discontent in the officers' mess. Among Congressmen the growing suspicion that before summer's end they would be called upon to vote more taxes was disquieting. Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Bob Doughton, the Administration's Congressional tax champions, were in a state of high dudgeon. Again save for a zealous minority, few of the President's Congressional followers had any real enthusiasm for the Supreme Court proposal which he had tossed to them to carry out. On that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces...
...murder, but we don't think they are. . . . Murder sells papers, books, plays because we are all fascinated by murder." Letting its soul-searching go at that, the News then plunged ahead with all the rest of Manhattan's press to follow the Gedeon story on through. Suspicion fell upon the estranged father Joseph Gedeon (pronounced Gedyon), an upholsterer with erotic tendencies. Reporters hounded him into beer halls, had chairs thrown at them...
...deeply under Stalin's skin has penetrated world-wide suspicion of the Old Bolshevik trials as frame-ups, the Dictator disclosed in a slashing speech delivered secretly to Moscow bigwigs on March 3 and broadcast last week by electrical transcription to all Russia. "It is a rotten theory to say the Trotskyists do not have reserves in the Soviet Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler...
...mistress. Rembrandt died a pauper, was forgotten for generations, was rediscovered and has now become among the highest priced and most frequently forged of all Old Masters. Last week it was made known that another Rembrandt, just discovered, had reached the U. S. Art critics put aside the suspicion that an announcement of this sort usually brings, for here was a Rembrandt whose authenticity was not likely to be questioned. Lost for 50 years, its history was nevertheless known. It was Hendrickje as Juno...
...began to see his wish fulfilled. He even crashed county society, found he could play his part there to his own satisfaction. As for the others: "The setting and the dialog were perfect, the character performances superb, and there seemed to be, only every now and then, a suspicion of overacting among the smaller parts." He began to write plays, stories, a novel. When he sold a play to Manhattan Producer Al Woods, he was encouraged to make a trip to the U. S. His five months in Manhattan made him some useful acquaintances but little money...