Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower, and can claim blue blood equal to the bluest of the blue...
...list of societies, clubs, and what not which that manual contains must inspire him with a genuine respect for our inventive powers. Close examination of the list, and full understanding of the objects of the different societies it mentions, will, however, lay us open to a grave charge, a suspicion which no ingenuity will palliate,--a charge directed against our sense of justice rather than the force of our intellect; a charge of unfairness. I have deliberated long before fully resolving to bring this notice to the readers of the Magenta. I know well how potent are the suggestions made...
...Berlin, a man well known in Germany but little known abroad, a man feared, hated, despised, as was the sombre, inscrutable, all-powerful, Hugo Stinnes-this man was arrested on the suspicion of having defrauded the Prussian State Bank and on a charge of usury. Subsequent inves- tigation failed to substantiate the charges and the man was discharged last week...
...York Board of Health reports 300 cases of typhoid in widely scattered sections of the city. Attempts are being made to locate the source of infection, which a careful inspection of the water and milk supply has failed to disclose. Oysters and other shellfish are under suspicion as possible means of solution. Dr. Frank J. Monayhan, head of the New York Board of Health, attributes the prevalence of the disease to the abnormally dry weather...
...when I was actually ashamed of being an American!. And I have felt many times, too that no American should be allowed to travel abroad until he had proven his ability to act as a gentleman under all circumstances. I do not wonder any more at any dislike or suspicion or hostility that crops out against Americans, whether at the Olympic Games or in the Place de I'Opera...