Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days when it is customary to expound the defects of the rising generation it is pleasant to find that youth often justifies itself in a quite unexpected manner to a quite unexpected degree, and confirms the suspicion of some of its teachers that it has rather more than its share of talent, ability and courage. A striking example of this has been given by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which entirely against the advice of many of the elders who were consulted decided to put on the stage Andreyev's "The Life of Man", and did so with more success than...
...James this week the Boston Stock Company presents a tinkling little three-act comedy, as merry as its name, "Wedding Bells". It has to do with marriage, divorce, red hair, misunderstanding, reconciliation, and the eternal hexagon of farce-comedies. About the middle of the first act a suspicion of the outcome begins to dawn upon you, and you settle back in your seat and affably await the end of the third act and the inevitable. At the appearance of Jackson upon the scene, you unconsciously nod in greeting, and the pleasant thought comes to you, "What is comedy without...
Propaganda, even of the best sort, has failed so signally in the past few years that the word itself is looked on with suspicion. The most effective means left of making one nation understood by another is through the work of individual missionaries, and the hundred odd scholarship men coming back to America every year will be missionaries of France in the highest sense. It is safe to say that if each of these can interpret the spirit of the French people as well as the grand old man who leaves American shores today, Franco-American relations for the future...
...cooperation in world affairs through this splendid channel, the most hopeful ever created,--by the timorous conservatism and petty politics of a few men in the United States Senate. It seems likely that it will take at least five or six years to overcome in America the impression of suspicion and dread of the most Christian attempt to cooperate for the good of all ever seen in the world,--an impression raised by the bickering of the Republican Senators over a constitutional document that had yet to have the slightest breath of life blown into it,--that could have been...
...become emboldened to such a degree that it will be inclined to exterminate not merely the remaining Greeks and Armenians in the country of their forefathers under her control, but also the non-Turkish minorities of Circassians, Kurds and others. For we know from the past that a mere suspicion of hostile feelings is sufficient to arouse the Turks to their policy of murder...