Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
...Love Mart. Incredibly enough, the villain of this picture suspects the heroine, whose skin is as white as her well-bleached character, of being an octoroon. The only reasonable basis for such a suspicion is found in the fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when slave traders brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips...
...field". Among decent, bona fide rebels, it has always been the custom to leave the dead on the field, to be counted by the victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there were no dead, though of course the gallant American commander reports that the mortality among the rebels, despite their unfair tactics, was "heavy...
...line, besides, raises a suspicion that the Sandino men are not playing the game. They are, of course, rebels. And rebels, according to all the rules of war, are not supposed to be well armed, well uniformed, or well disciplined. Rebels are supposed to afford fleeting targets for leathernecks when the contest is waged among gentlemen...
...these methods were indeed resorted to, an aura of "pedigree" hangs about the documents; but questions put by the investigating Senators, last week, prompted a suspicion that the papers may be simple forgeries which have not even been burglared...