Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade of publicizing has been subjected seems to have been blunted on the dullness of its target. Or possibly the public has become so habituated to the nonsensical claims by manufacturers who keep safety-pins and piston rods fresh in cellophane, that claptrap and falsehood in advertising neither arouses suspicion as to the purity and worth of the product, nor awakens resentment in the minds of the duped. If this is so no hopes can be held for any immediate change. But if the flood of periodicals mocking the accepted lies of the cigarette vendors are truly interpreted, an interval...
...entirely mistress of her destiny within her natural frontiers, I, for my part, would favor a very friendly political understanding with Great Britain. But as long as there exists against us a menacing fortress on our own soil, and we must live, so to speak, in a state of suspicion, true friendship can never be born between the two nations...
...Ambassador Forbes is neither credulous nor crochety," said Japanese Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa handsomely at one of these functions. "He is never ridden by nightmares of suspicion...
Also during the week, Henry ("Red") Johnson, a friend of Nurse Gow's who had difficulty explaining his movements on the kidnapping night, passed beyond suspicion. He was, however, held for the immigration authorities when it was found that his real name was Henrik Finn Johnsen and that he had illegally entered the U. S. by jumping ship in Brooklyn several years...
...about the same, though the literati look more real. For modern writers like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passes he has not much to say; prefers Hemingway, Frost, Edna Millay. The book is a reliable and compendious guidebook, though its readers will sometimes suffer from a discomforting suspicion that its author's opinions will never wither from lack...