Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval ratio imposed by the Washington Treaty.* But even while the world last week was making its financial blue prints for new weapons of death and destruction for an oncoming era of intensive nationalism, talk of another war just ahead seemed to be subsiding and the taut strings of suspicion and jealousy slacked off perceptibly...
...embarrassed by the possession of the pilfered jewel, refuses the entreaties of his accomplices to chuck it in the Thames instead he rescues the finance of Scotland Yard's commissioner's daughter from the charge of being Mr. X, falls in love with the daughter, attracts the attention and suspicion of the sleuths...
...suspicion of graft, had sent the army planes of a sudden into the air, they would have found themselves out-maneuvered and shot down. The private planes might, in due time, be fitted for military service, but modern aerial warfare is too quick and deadly to await their reconstruction. Obviously, what the situation demands is not a larger air force, but an air force whose existing equipment is effective, up-to-date, and at least on a par with that of the private lines...
...grey pullover sweater stepped up on the dais at the Philadelphia Academy of Music one day last week and. bracing his shaking knees, picked up a baton to rehearse the proud Philadelphia Orchestra. The players greeted him politely but on many a stony face was a look of dark suspicion. They were tired of guest conductors and this one was a pianist. But José Iturbi also used to be a boxer and he would not be glared down. He smiled a disarming smile and set the musicians to work with the authority of their own Stokowski.*Before the rehearsal...
...Gill hearing, from boredom and apparent hostility to a kind of modified and active neutrality must have a very important effect on any assessment of the case. The switch was slight. As the outbursts of Gill's counsel yesterday indicate, it has not placed the whole investigation beyond all suspicion of unfairness. But it has meant this: that the Press, at last a trifle uncertain about the outcome of the affair and therefore about the consequences of its Roman holiday, has resolved to give the Superintendent at least the semblance of justice. And, what is a great deal more...