Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligent night club hostess to a wealthy ne'er-do-well. Abby Fane (Carole Lombard) marries Roderick Deane (Gene Raymond) with a very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work for his father's firm. When he retires, humiliated by his incompetence...
...power behind the illicit drug traffic. To advance objective No. 1 he forces the young people's friend, a middle-aged keeper in the Tombs, to agree to smuggle guns to the three gunmen for a jailbreak. To advance objective No. 3, the keeper is to throw suspicion on the boy as having brought in the guns when he comes to the Tombs with a Christmas necktie for his jailbird brother. The second act, laid in the Tombs, shows a jailbreak roughly based on the Tombs' 1926 break, the prisoners trying unsuccessfully to shoot their...
...forged bonds with the State Treasurer, gave a second set of forged bonds to banks and brokers as collateral for loans and advances. None of the forged bonds apparently was sold to the public, for then coupons would have come back in triplicate, at once have aroused suspicion. Last week the known amount of forged bonds swelled daily, mounted to $835,000, threatened to reach beyond a million...
Were Greta Garbo to marry a blind War hero and thereafter be arrested on suspicion of having murdered him, the account of her trial would certainly be front-paged. It would give the Press hysterics if: 1) her defense counsel, the greatest criminal lawyer of his day, were to become desperately enamoured of her; 2) the presiding judge were a sadist and notorious lecher...
...whatever manner necessary." By this time Havana was becoming slowly paralyzed by the growth of a series of strikes which began last week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse and market men, newspaper staffs, telegraphers, railway employes and the staffs of Havana's best hotels. Suspicion was rife that the Government, fearing Mediator Welles was about to exact the resignation of President Machado. had sent agents provocateurs to foment the original strikes, thinking that a little trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after...