Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crave no sympathy, but only a pallid smile can respond to the suspicion that . . . Germany . . . can at any visible date . . . set up a war machine...
...Austen, but not until another round of speeches had been indulged in. M. Briand's address was the only one either greatly moving or notably significant. Rising to his full height, he cried: "At last the spirit of solidarity takes the place of that of distrust and suspicion. . . . Opposite me I behold the German delegates. That does not mean that I do not remain a good Frenchman! They are good Germans! But in the light of these treaties we are good Europeans only! . . . By and over our signatures we declare for peace...
...regard to how people in other countries think. Some of our statesmen have talked as if that were the case. Professor Brierly, who teaches international law at Oxford, recently said of the amendments in the Senate that "only the eminence of the critics saves them from the suspicion of frivolity." Let us build on what exists, and let us save America from the reproach which our delay is heaping upon...
...Artists and Models" now current at the Majestic, this time in the guise of a mysterious chamber lined with ancient plates, one of which falls whenever a lie is told. It would be interesting to test that room by discussing last night's show inside it. The strong suspicion is that almost every favorable comment would be drowned by the crash of shattering china...
This proposal has not taken the House or the Senate by storm. Instead, the representatives of the people, usually so eager to ally themselves with progress, have maintained strict silence. A few solons, it is true, have booed the idea as foolish. It seems that there is a suspicion current among the majority of these men that light-headedness scientifically obtained and tabublated, would be interested too literally in non-scientific circles, and out of sheer group loyalty they feel they must ignore the issue...