Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sleuth Penkethman knows all about Walter from the start, drops ambiguous warnings in his ear about Penthièvre, suggests it might avert suspicion if Leroy and Cassie appeared to be lovers. Nothing loth, they do their best to keep up appearances, soon find themselves actually falling in love. Towards the end of the voyage the ship's radio brings news of the king's assassination in Paris; then denies it. Penthièvre and Penkethman grow more & more ambiguous; Leroy and Cassie remain naive and amorous. When they get to Paris the lovers are first delighted, then...
...either as a worth-while preparation for such purposes or for more immediate uses, the Sociology Department is regarded with deep suspicion and jealousy. Its position at Harvard is in the limbo of forgotten, perhaps intentionally forgotten departments, as Psychology and other newly arriving studies once were. Yet without question sociology is a "coming" science not only in its handicapped role here, but also in many of the Embree report's "eleven best" colleges, as enrollment figures on other pages conclusively show...
...penned by indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through the House of Commons destroyed all that is summed up by the old saw, "An Englishman's house is his castle." Under the Inskip act, as yet unenforced in full, British police may on mere "suspicion" obtain a High Court justice's order to burst into private homes and ransack them for "treasonable literature." Merely to "possess" such literature (as distinguished from writing, publishing or showing it to anyone who might be "treasonably seduced") is made a crime...
Yamano has and deserves little affection in his own family. His son, Shigeo, is a university student, sensitive to the newest thinking of the West, out of sympathy with his father's commercialism, his reactionary social code. Some of Shigeo's friends are arrested on suspicion of Communism. Shigeo, fearing that he may be implicated with them, is reassured by his old friend Major Honjo, a kind-hearted Christian convert who carries on a one - man rescue mission among the Yoshiwara women. At one of Major Honjo's Sunday Bible readings Shigeo meets and falls in love...
...Taussig gives the following advice to doctors who find themselves called upon to perform therapeutic abortions: "Since the physician must in every case of abortion strive to keep his name clear of any suspicion of malpractice, it is naturally preferable for him to treat every patient with this condition in a hospital, where records are kept and the presence of nurse or interne prevents any possible efforts at blackmailing by unscrupulous persons. It is relatively easy for a man in city practice to carry this out, but in a very considerable number of cases handled in country or small town...