Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America, influenced partly by the inevitable swing of the pendulum, partly by reaction against President Willson's system of personal government, and partly by a suspicion of the European connections into which the present Administration has carried her, is reverting resolutely to her habitual conservatism. That is the salient fact to be reckoned with for the next two and probably four years. How, it is necessary to ask, will that affect America's relations with the rest of the world and with this country in particular...
That campaign has succeeded--with the result that Germany is to be favored with that trade which should have been ours, the relations between France and England are becoming more strained each day, France is in a fair way to be pauperized, and England is an object of suspicion the world over...
Through clubs and classes for boys or men, through hikes, musicales, athletic societies, or discussion groups, natural friendly association can be substituted for indifference and suspicion. As volunteer worker for a settlement house or community center, the Boy Scouts, the Juvenile Court or other agency, the student, not through patronage but loyal cooperation, can share in the reduction of misunderstanding and the promotion of orderly and genuine democracy...
...time has come, however, to realize that a compromise is imperative it any workable solution is to be attained. The very word, "compromise", has about it a smack of surrender and a suspicion of failure that make it detestable alike to the "bitter-ender" and the "die-hard". The proposer of a compromise usually calls upon himself the wrath of both opposing sides; in the end, however, it is the compromise which triumphs...
...Chicago Club of the American League have confessed that they accepted bribes to "throw" games in the world's series last year. These men and six others who were members of the club at the time have been indicted. But it is to be remembered that no suspicion attaches to the great majority of the league ball players. The men involved in the present scandal are a handful in the baseball army. The misdeeds to which two of them have confessed, and with which the others are charged, may be regarded as exceptions to the general rule...