Word: busybodyness
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MR. PINKERTON GOES TO SCOTLAND YARD-David Frome-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Busybody Pinkerton makes more trouble, has more excitement than usual, in a suburban poisoning case.
Sure that it knew best how to manage German business, one of the first steps of the Hitler Government was to poke into hundreds of the Fatherland's leading industries a Nazi busybody called a "commissar."
Some busybody at Dr. George Washington Crile's Cleveland laboratory last week revealed the fact that "something amazing and revolutionary had taken place there," that Dr. Crile had synthesized inert chemicals into "something approximating life." Dr. Crile had wanted to save the announcement for the American Association for the...
To the casual observer, however, it will perhaps occur that the situation at Harvard and Yale is by no means unique. A survey of wage scales at other colleges would undoubtedly reveal conditions more scandalous than exist at New Haven and Cambridge. Will some busybody at Princeton please keep the...
Young's* international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G...