Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satire is the long suit of the more heady modern poetry, and that is the pity of it. Really brilliant puns are hidden in a mess of verbiage, without meaning to the unitiated. There are few who are prepared to undergo the rites of initiation, since there is the suspicion that the final mystery is worthless altogether and so the influence of these satirists as correctors of modern foibles is negligible...
...comments on the "Review's" criticism were written "with tongue in cheek," as Mr. Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
...shall watch subsequent issues with closest care and not hesitate to excoriate you if my sorry suspicion proves correct...
There can be no doubt that the President intends to lighten the teaching burden of the members of the faculty in order to give them more time for research. And since it is the tutorial system which has been responsible for the existing situation, the prevailing suspicion is that tutorial work is slated for curtailment. The tutorial system has labored under the handicap of being a new-fangled appendage to an old machine, and its recognition by many of the older professors has been grudging. Yet in the space of a decade or so, it has achieved a remarkable degree...
...carefully eschews facetiousness. Much investigation has convinced him that motion-picture, censorship is due primarily to "the bewilderment of any people confronted with a new mode of expression"; this simple analysis, however, is merely a starting point for the learned Mr. Wilton. a combination of erudition and suspicion has convinced him that there must be something deeper behind it; so 'possibly there was a more sintster significance--the desire of the privileged class to control amusement and ideas, very similar to the motive behind the effort to stifle the printing press." Delving still deeper Mr. Wilton has discovered that 'books...