Word: clew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...
...Here should sheer off, but Disko holds his course. In a sequence in which suspense is built with a series of superb effect shots, the We're Here avoids getting cut in half, forces Captain Cushman to veer away. Immediately afterward, with her crew standing by to clew up the foretopsails, the backstays part and the We're Here's mainmast goes overside, carrying with it Manuel in a tangle of canvas, cable and running gear. Cut to pieces by the wire cable in which he is fouled below the waist. Manuel screams in Portuguese...
...dozen bullet holes in the windows of Stoughton, with the accompanying shower of finely shattered glass, has given the inmates of this building cause for considerable concern. No clew to the identity of the sniper has as yet been discovered, despite the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the members of Stoughton...
Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage upon an adjustment of feuds between the English and Scots...
Famed for his skill at the start of a race, Skipper Vanderbilt got Rainbow across within five seconds of the gun. Endeavour was a full minute behind. She had first hoisted a double-clew jib, then changed to a Genoa just before the start. On the 15-mile beat that started the 30-mile windward and leeward course, Rainbow tacked first, crossed Endeavour's bow, held her advantage in a tacking duel as they neared the turning buoy, rounded it almost three minutes ahead. Coming back before the wind, both boats broke out parachute spinnakers, took them in when...