Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once an evidence if a renewed sanity in political outlook and an indication of the seriousness of the food problem in Germany. As an expression of a forgiving spirit and a desire to alleviate unnecessary; suffering the bill should call forth only favorable comment, which even the suspicion that the measure was in part designed for the very practical purpose of pleasing the American farmer and "consolidating the German vote" does not embitter. The overwhelming pon-party vote in its favor expresses the Business of Congressional sympathy...
...announced that the concrete plan would not be in the hands of the Reparations Commission before the end of the month. The actual problem of drafting is giving more difficulty than was expected. In spite of official denials by the chairmen of all three delegations, there is suspicion of dissension between the British and American delegates on one hand and the French on the other...
Since the formation of the Little Entente (YugoSlavia, CzechoSlovakia and Rumania) under French auspices, Italy has been suspicous of the new order in Central Europe. Efforts have been made by the Little Ententists to bring Greece, Poland and Italy into the charmed circle, but Italian suspicion of the Yugo-Slavs and Italian nervousness at the tendencies of French foreign policy has held Mussoliniland aloof...
...George's series of enclosures, the point of view changes with surprising swiftness. The enterprising burglar degenerates into the commonplace crook, and the newcomer's statement of "Ladies and gentlemen. I have come to live with you; I am a pick-pocket!" is received with coolness, not to say suspicion...
...returned to London with highly diverting accounts of barking vultures, fishes which leap out of the water on to necks of their prey, and other amazing fauna. Although treated with a most irreverent levity by the daily press, the Captain laid his papers before the Royal Geographical Society. A suspicion still lingers that that learned body is having its leg pulled...