Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South American jungles of wandering explorers, delirious from hunger and thirst, who have stumbled upon communities of fair haired, light skinned Indians, with aquiline Moses and peculiarly clear cut features. Allan Quartermain found them, and so have several others whose reports have never been substantiated. There is always a suspicion of fever, hallucination, or temporary derangement on the part of the eye witness that makes complete belief impossible...
...these days to call a poet clean is no slight compliment. Mr. Auslander without raising a moment's suspicion of a didactic purpose, never gravitates to the immoral as so many poets do on occasion. He speaks the poetry that is in him, a poetry pure and high...
...Thief of Bagdad, have made much of mad horse-rides over the scenery. It causes no surprise, then, when Mary Pickford, in her latest vehicle joins the scamper academy of screendom. She plunges ahead in a wild gallop that would do credit to Paul Revere. In fact, suspicion even obtrudes that it is not always Mary herself performing the athletic equestrian feats that are an honor to the Fairbanks family...
...believe the worst of the most patently guiltless person in the cast Miss Wood is picked for the latter role, and if anyone could believe the worst of Miss Wood, except a stage detective and those members of the cast who are supposed to direct the finger of suspicion toward her, that man is a very cynical blackguard. So, if you won't believe the worst of Miss Wood, she tries to make you believe the very best. And in this play she inclines toward a coyness that is unnecessary and a bit hurtful...
...rumors and hotel lobby gossip and casual conversation and to unfounded reflections upon the character and business of reputable citizens until it has been said in our blearing by, a member ol the committee that the mere fact that a witness is summoned before this committee places him under suspicion...