Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drinking man, had not been drunk. The suicide angle was dropped when Mr. Patterson explained that Mr. Black's estrangement from his wife was a ''happy mismating." But front-page stories for two days stressed the variance in the ships' reports, expressing by their emphasis and alertness a professional suspicion that there was more than met the eye in this "mystery plunge...
With a shrewd suspicion of the probable result, no attempt was made to defend London from air attack. Britain was divided in two, "Redland" and "Blueland." The official problem set "Redland's" commander would have taxed a Napoleon: to defend the mines and factories of northern manufacturing Britain, to preserve a way out of the country for minerals, inward for food and supplies. Real problem of the maneuvers was to test the comparative efficiency of day bombers and interceptors. Redland was given the fastest fighting planes, Blueland the fastest bombers...
...high well-born Gentleman Jonkheer N; Maes van Herwerden,'' handsome but conventional young blood of the staid and doughty aristocracy of Holland, had sufficient social elasticity to become engaged to an actress, but not enough to carry the engagement through the first jealous suspicion of misconduct. Jenny Heysten knew that she loved him more than the two lovers who followed, but she found solace in her genius, which flourished or failed as her emotional life varied. When Jonkheer Nico returned, however, and saw her in an ingenue part, her seeming innocence recaptured him. Once more he tried to bridge...
...plays a comic formula in which an arrangement of young lovers is shuffled, after difficulties, so that each character comes out at the end with a different partner. The formula has been successful in every later generation of the theatre whenever playwrights could think of new devices for causing suspicion, love and mistaken identity. In this instance the device is the birth of a child to the first wife of a young man (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who is about to be married a second time. It is a homely but fairly funny program picture. Typical shot: a milkwagon horse adding...
Prejudice? The suspicion that Mr. Lowman's personal prejudice against Communism was involved with his enforcement of the tariff law grew when he gave the New York Herald Tribune an inflammatory interview against the Soviet program. Excerpts...