Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview, in which he pointed to the continued refusal of Ulster to appoint a boundary commissioner to cooperate with the Tree State and Great Britain in determining the line between North and South. He denounced the Belfast authorities for keeping over 400 Free State sympathizers interned " on nothing but suspicion," claiming that many had been arrested in order that the public offices, held by them under the Imperial Government, might be given nominees of the Ulster Government...
...lines refuse to abandon this practice, and give as a reason that our consul would not, for example, visé before June 1 passports for sailing on July 1, and that it was necessary for them to make bookings longer in advance. Their real reason, it is understood, is a suspicion that when a prospective immigrant, unbooked for sailing, goes to the American consulate to get a visa, American officials there use undue influence to make him take an American vessel...
United States a man who regards with suspicion and hatred 3,000,000 of its inhabitants...
...China, is murdered in a vault which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes, is ingeniously simple and highly unexpected...
...stirred to applaud. And since it "is heralded on the Princeton Campus as the forerunner of the system of self-education which starts next fall", its success seems assured. One writer suggests invidiously that the episode was a mere object lesson engineered by the university press agent, but such suspicion is unbecoming. He should recognize in this the growing desire for student self-expression...