Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the disastrous Worcester fire yesterday was incendiary in origin is the suspicion of many officials who are investigating the stricken area. If evidence is forthcoming to prove that such is the case, a serious problem is at once presented. So widespread is the district affected that whether the responsibility lies in a deliberate plot on the part of "reds," or of a gang of fanatical firebugs, the matter calls for the fullest examination...
...place the Museum of Fine Arts wished to have, and which now it never can have. (2) The architect originally chosen, after months of detailed labor, had his work taken from him, and he was made the consulting architect. When he realized that he was not deceived in his suspicion that he was being studiously ignored, he also resigned. His successor, like the apprentice of Michael Scott, the magician of the ironic legend, made a pathetic fiasco relieved only by faint reminiscences of the original design...
...well, however, when all aspects of the tangle are considered, that another election should be called. It is imperative that the Seniors should start with a clean slate. The poll next Monday must be free from any taint of suspicion. There must be no such guarded hints of club or caste prejudice, private or social interest, as have disgraced former elections. Full justice must be done...
...Patricola has one of the funniest acts seen in vaudeville for years, his method of telling jokes making any imitation of him almost a sacrilege. He falls down and knocks himself about with such subtlety that any suspicion of slapstick or horseplay is done away with...
...play takes a prologue and one uninteresting act to get under way; but the last two acts have at least the virtue of holding fast one's attention. The action depends on the villainous Frank Devereaux's efforts to seduce innocent women and the resultant triangle of false suspicion, threats, and "evidence." In a struggle for his revolver, Devereaux is shot by "Lafe" Regan, whose wife is in the next room--she having visited Devereaux for the purpose of protecting her daughter. Regan arranges everything to look like suicide, leaves the room and locks the door on the outside, thereby...