Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...
These optimistic events at once split Wall Street into two schools of thought. One declared its belief that the turn had come, and that pessimistic predictions regarding 1924 had been overdone. The other, bearish to begin with, continued in that frame of mind; it viewed with cynical suspicion the remarkable coincidence of the extra Steel dividend, Judge Gary's cheerful prophecies, Broker Livermore's equally cheerful pronouncement, the upward rush in the price of the four present leading speculative stocks...
...Suspicion of moisture on the steps of a Scandinavian throne...
...overwork to which he has been subjected. Even those who were most hitter against the theories of President Wilson condemned a system which produced the tragic figure of an executive broken by the terrific strain of his office. And the death of President Harding served to confirm a suspicion that the exaction of presidential duties is too great for a man who is no longer in his physical prime...
...whipping through the rigging a matter of measurements might seem the affair of a landlubber. But the unpleasantness which has marked the fishermen's races in the past has again made itself evident in the Columbia-Bluenose battle. Old salts on both sides seem to be salted down with suspicion. This perhaps, is justified, for neither appears above suspicion. In fact the whole competition seems to have degenerated from the ideal of true sport to the baser ideal of winning by any means, fair or fairly foul...