Word: bloodhounded
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...mining district of Colorado's San Juan mountains, the world's fastest tunnel builder was hard a-boring once more last week. The man: 6-ft.-8-in. John Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...
...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
Whittier, who is a bloodhound of no mean repute in Puritan circles, wrote the famed actress and sent flowers; much to his surprise and joy, "her secretary" called him the next day and arranged for a private luncheon at a hotel in Boston...
Ominous is the word for Alexander Granach's performance as a Gestapo bloodhound. The squat, square-headed, muscle-bound sleuth ticks along with the sinister near silence of a clock. He never speaks; his approach is heralded by the patient squeak of his shoes. Actor Granach knew his role well. One of Germany's best actors, but a Jew, he escaped from his country a stride ahead of the real Gestapo...
...assessment was the handiwork of Alfred L. Kirby, professional revenue bloodhound for taxing bodies. In Hillsborough's employ, Kirby found that Mrs. Cromwell had never made a return on her intangible property, legally due ever since she was 21. She has paid some $20,000 annually on her Duke farms, her buildings, her personal property. Discoverer Kirby decided that she was also taxable not only for stocks, bonds, etc. held in her name but also as a trustee for the Duke Endowment Fund, a New Jersey trust. Stopped by law from snuffing back more than two years, the taxers...