Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most cases this undergraduate suspicion is well founded. But there is another reason for presidential isolation. Modern four-button, Ide collar undergraduates are more sophisticated than they were in the heyday of the turtlenecked sweater. They are finicky about their friends. They would be standoffish should any president seek to backslap and fraternize. Often they are best left to their self-sufficient devices. "Perhaps," said a jokester, "only fools rush in where Angells fear to tread...
President John J. O'Brien's report last week that Standard Gas & Electric Co. of Chicago owns public utility properties worth $873,135,568 and has total assets of practically a billion dollars ($973,859,382) may startle governmental officials already queasy with suspicion of public utility holding corporations such as this. Prudent, President O'Brien warded off aspersion: "Public utilities cannot be operated economically in small units. Only by grouping them into large, strong organizations can they be favorably financed, scientifically engineered and successfully operated so as to render services at the lowest reasonable cost...
Puzzled policemen in Constantinople arrested last week "on suspicion" two little Greek boys aged 5 and 7, caught in the act of flying kites adorned with the blue and white stripes of the Greek flag. No doubt existed in the minds of the police that a crime had been committed; but they could not decide what crime. Soon telegrams flew between Constantinople and the new Turkish Capital, Angora...
...sent bidding The New Yorkers to remove this blot on the figure of physical culture. The revuers pertly refused to comply. Attorney Schultz threatened to sue. The New Yorkers wished he would, for if there was a show in Manhattan which needed publicity, it was theirs. They had a suspicion that the constituency of the second largest and indisputably grossest tabloid in Manhattan was not of such a high order of humanity but that it would applaud the spectacle of its pastor and master, hoist with his own porno-petard...
...feared in some quarters that an acknowledgment of error would diminish respect for the courts. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing can undermine public esteem for law more certainly than a prevalent suspicion that its guardians care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary...