Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Certain circumstances connected with the last reduction aroused suspicion that the Administration, supposedly for political reasons, had deliberately planned two separate reductions: a small one for use in the bi-election campaign this year and a bigger one to become effective immediately preceding the Presidential campaign and election of 1928. However that may be, with an actual and estimated surplus of $562,000,000 available for reduction at the coming session of Congress it is difficult to discover any good reason for withholding and postponing that reduction for a full year, except to promote the ambition of Republican Presidential aspirants...
...that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close the one you are supposed never to have suspected seriously is revealed as guilty. It is all delightfully thrilling fun, and Paul Harvey, as the detective in charge of the case, gives an exceptional performance...
...thick figure in a leather jacket and goggles climbed out of the cockpit of a an airplane. "Where am I?" he demanded, viewing with suspicion the brown terrain, the fog-filled, dingy air. "Half a mile from London, sir," replied the pilot courteously. Upon this information, the goggled person, a passenger recently embarked at Brussels, began a series of unpleasant antics, striking his fist against the side of the plane, cursing in a sodden voice, and stamping on the ground. He had wanted, it appeared, to go to Paris. At the Brussels Aerodrome, four planes had been leaving simultaneously...
...Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood in attitudes of somewhat disgruntled welcome, the 60 Grand Councillors of San Marino, an august senate from which the two regents are chosen twice a year. Well they might regard II Duce with suspicion, fear. Did not Caesar Borgia wrest the precious independence of the republic from it for an all-too-broad span of years? May not the republic's armed forces (1200 men, constituting the sturdy male population between 16 and 60) be called upon to sell their lives in attempting...
...stomach preventing me from walking any longer-I sat down on the pedestal of the statue of William Tell, which stands in the Pare de Montbenon. My appearance must have been terrible during those terrible moments, for the people who came to inspect the monument scrutinized me with suspicion, almost with alarm. Oh! if De Dominicis had come to preach his moral lessons tome there how gladly I would have laid him out! . . . "I have received your