Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently indifferent to the nationwide suspicion that had just attached itself to one of the guests, President Coolidge attended a dinner-last of its kind this season-given for him by Secretary of Labor James John Davis & Mrs. Davis. Among the guests were Senator Capper of Kansas, Mr. & Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hines (Evanston, Ill., lumber), Alexander Pollock Moore and Will H. Hays...
Nervousness on the one hand, suspicion on the other, made of this story a very long and confused matter indeed when Inquisitor Walsh made Tsar Hays repeat it over & over. Less stigma would have attached but for two circumstances...
...could not be Lew Friedman because the finger of suspicion points at him too soon; nor will the astute reader mistake Tillman's inscrutability for that of a "squealer." Who wishes to marry Beryl Stedman although, she, while she admires his generous, open nature, cannot bring herself to love him? Is not the squealer suspected of being a bigamist and is not merry Frank Sutton overfamiliar with his gaudy secretary? In the big unmasking scene at the end of the book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary...
...earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing total...
Sirs: In a footnote in your quotations from President Coolidge's address before the Pan-Amer- ican Congress, are these words, "A scarcely disguised rebuke to the suspicion-fomenting lie-circulating Hearst press." I am no friend of that slavering, slobbering, unintellectual and excuseless vulgarity known as the Hearst Press. But I hardly think President Coolidge's remarks were directed against the thirty-five odd" Hearst papers which have stood back of him as they have no President in more than a quarter of a century. The Hearst lies were directed against the Senators who oppose the Administration...