Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of patronesses includes Mrs. Edward Ballantine, Mrs. P. de M. Barbey, Mrs. Fox Conner, Mrs. Archibald T. Davidson, Mrs. Sidney Fay, Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. C. H. Haring, Miss Minna F. Holl, Mrs. James R. Jewett, Mrs. Bernard C. Jones, Mrs. Joseph Lee, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Edward K. Rand, Mrs. D. P. Rhodes, Mrs. Thomas Russell, Mrs. Harlow Shapley, Mrs. Philip L. Spalding, Mrs. Walter R. Spaulding, and Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman...
Pronouncing them male, Sir Bernard scraped the legs, analyzed the scrapings. "Peroxide," he observed. "Evidently used to whiten the flesh." Traces were also found of a depilatory. But it was the bones of the toes and insteps which interested Sherlock Spilsbury most. "Toe bones abnormally cramped." he said. "Insteps abnormally arched, as if deformed from wearing women's high-heeled shoes. Um, most curious...
Since English editors make it their duty to shield the public from certain facts of life, they deduced from Sir Bernard's findings not that the Waterloo legs had belonged to a pervert but that the murdered man "may have been attending a masquerade party...
...Waterloo legs, Sir Bernard thought, had been lifeless only twelve hours. When railway attendants reported that three lackadaisical young men had loitered around the car in which the legs were found before the train left a suburban station, Scotland Yard announced that they are being "sought for questioning." As in Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, when found, the Waterloo legs were wrapped in newspapers which had absorbed most of the blood, then encased in brown paper...
...That Pitcairn Island (a British possession) has come to be one of the most famed dots on the world map is largely due to two writers, Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who live in Tahiti with their native wives and dusky children. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, U. S. Authors Nordhoff and Hall effectively told the whole story of the Bounty and its tangled sequel (TIME, Aug. 20 et ante...