Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essential details of the case. Only Dr. Kelley's high professional standing removed the suspicion that St. Louis' 13th kidnappery in 16 months...
...against strong Liberal sentiment, he got a $350,-ooo gift from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Experimental College which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn was imported to develop has been flayed for lack of discipline. And there are other minor issues. But, chiefly, personalities are involved. Many a La Follettite views with suspicion the big industrialists whom Dr. Frank numbers among his friends...
Subway Express (Columbia). Murder, and the detection of the murderer, in a subway train full of passengers in its run between 14th and 145th Streets, Manhattan, was accomplished by the authors of this piece with such credibility and pace, bit-part humor and rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
...occurred once before, and since the current opinion is that the stern combination of the first eight should be left intact, it is probable that the veteran of last year's Freshman crew will be seen again in his customary place behind Cassedy. The shakeup, however, leads to a suspicion that Whiteside was not too pleased with the showing of the first eight in the triple regatta last Saturday, and will endeavor to smooth out the Crimson craft before it enters the waters against a dangerous Navy eight...
...Gambler Ned Beaumont's brains that helped him out of many a tough spot. Beaumont did not like the idea of Madvig's supporting aristocratic Senator Henry, thought still less of Madvig's sparking the Senator's daughter Janet. When the Senator's son was found murdered, suspicion soon fell on Madvig, but strangely enough failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little to anybody, but he went after the murderer on his own. That was nearly the end of Beaumont. How it all turned...