Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative program he simply wound up. His geniality, his personal charm, his good social background, will be advanced in his favor?and against them will be set the suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
...reasonably be doubted, for M. Briand was first of all a Frenchman. He seemed at times, with the intense nationalism of his race, ready to discard his great conception to preserve the temporary dominance of France. His attitude to Germany was a curious oscillation between friendship and an involuntary suspicion. But it must be remembered that he had always to account for the traditional French distrust of German motives. And he was bitterly attacked by a press which is possibly the most narrowly nationalistic in the world...
...currently believed that Fscism applies forms of pressure which would not be condoned outside of Italy to maintain its power. In the present case, the fact that college professors alone in the department of Italian education are required to take the oath is particularly injurious. It confirms the suspicion that the intention is not merely to insure support of Fascism, but to throttle the free investigation of political theory in the classroom...
...many an Englishman No. 5; become a sort of hopeful national symbol. When the bad news got out, in many English mind arose the suspicion that no small part of the more than ?55,000,000 now frozen in German loans had bet to build German superships, su them, run them at a loss to sweep shipping off the Atlantic Ocean...
...Suspicion that Gentle Reader may be just another blurb sheet is allayed by the discovery in its pages of definitely condemnatory book reviews...