Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the finger of suspicion pointed at the shipbuilders by the President's remarks, Mr. Bardo last week made answer...
...expert, Naval authority, Naval critic, writer and lecturer? and other things that won't bear repeating. Enthusiasts claim I am the best posted man in the U. S. on national defense. I claim nothing and expect less; but whatever I represent, it is all American?which seems to arouse suspicion as well as curiosity...
...emergencies is limited by a predilection for the Atlantic Monthly and the notion that it is wicked to take two cocktails before dinner. In Gambling, Actor Cohan visits a crisp tart at her bedizened lodgings and in his offers to pay for the upkeep of herself and them, a suspicion of the most vicious improprieties causes her merely to chuckle...
...agents logically came under suspicion first. A Grand Jury was asked to fix the blame. Nor did the government consider the owners of the lost liquor, the holders of the warehouse certificates, altogether blameless. Many of them were supposed to be onetime saloon keepers who had not wholly lost interest in liquor sales...
...entire attitude of the English Department is dominated by the fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There...