Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sudden manner with which the Countess announces that she has a book for sale provokes a faint smile of suspicion. However, when one has occupied the front page of a nation's newspapers for several consecutive days, one can do wonders, even write novelist in fortnights...
...summary of the diversified activities which have caused him to be regarded with international suspicion: 1) Entered an English Presbyterian theological college, after announcing his conversion from Judaism to Christianity; 2) Became a Presbyterian clergyman; 3) Secretary to B. Seebohm Rowntree, the millionaire Quaker cocoa manufacturer; 4) Liberal M. P. cartooned by Punch for speaking broken English mixed with Hungarian in Parliament; 5) Wartime mail censor in the British Postoffice Department; 6) Employed by Herr Steinhauer of the German Secret Service while still receiving British pay; 7) Imprisoned at Brooklyn, N. Y., pending extradition to England, where he was sentenced...
There has always been a sneaking suspicion on the part of the public that college sports were more or less professional anyway. The "finger" is still heard of occasionally. When the price of a ticket to a "Big Three" football game was advanced to three dollars, it seemed a good deal to pay for the privilege of getting near enough to the field to see the game, providing one's field glasses were moderately powerful. But once there, the overwhelming force of collegiate spirit completely eclipsed the thought of what one had paid to get there, because it made...
...such a number of revolutions per minute for two months. Even though no one has referred to it by name yet, the moth-eaten specter of Harvard indifference may have begun again to walk abroad and clank its chain. It is not the first time that even a suspicion that the worthy spook is about again has set people by the cars...
...advantages of the move more than balance the loss of picturesque, undergraduate activities. Many institutions furnish collegiate atmosphere, but not the opportunity for earnest study which presents itself at Johns Hopkins. In universities which combine the functions of graduate and undergraduate instruction, the college man often looks with suspicion on the older student who is so obviously and completely engrossed in bookish work. At best, the two sections of the college world pursue their diverse interests interfering with one another as little as possible. But in the classroom, friction develops between the needs of mature and the capacities of immature...