Word: bloodhounds
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...Cannes, with that gallantry which newshawks show at the most unexpected moments, the Press relaxed the bloodhound tactics by which they trailed Mrs. Simpson across France. They had "no idea whatever" where either Mrs. Simpson or Dr. Kirkwood were Wednesday afternoon...
...tales. It begins with a scene in which the Governor tells Bill Jesse: "By gatlings, we're going to make a new State out of Texas. You're built for the job. A born manhunter, that's what you are. . . . You have a scent like a bloodhound, and courage to match it. I bet you don't know what fear...
Ever since Austrian Nazis seized Vienna's ' Ballhaus and killed Chancellor Engelbert Dullfuss last year, towering, small-mouthed Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg has blamed the murder of his little friend morally on hollow-eyed Major Emil ("Bloodhound") Fey, who was caught by the Nazis with Dullfuss but did nothing to save him. Last week these two potent men tugged two ways at Austria, under the distracted Chancellorship of disheartened Kurt Schuschnigg...
Then past where lay the Porter and the friendly bloodhound into the night...
...parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book of its kind on the besprizorniye (wild children...