Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police cast bread upon the waters, literally. He was hunting for the body of a Mrs. George Lewis. Recalling a traditional procedure,† he set five loaves adrift, having to guess where to start them as Mrs. Lewis had drowned unseen, while fishing, her empty boat being the only clue. Four loaves floated idly about. One came to a purposeful halt. Grappling beneath the arrested loaf, Sergeant Bushy brought up Mrs. Lewis's body...
...indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after informing the surprised junkman that within it was concealed $1,200, Peter's life savings but recently drawn from the bank. The single clue to the identity of the junkman was the blue mattress which frugal Peter's unwitting spouse had included in her clever deal...
Some three years ago the jeweled crown of H. M. Augusta Victoria, late Kaiserin of Germany, vanished mysteriously from the Imperial palace, Unter den Linden. Since this pompous trinket of gold and jewels is valued at $875,000, many a detective has been vainly seeking it. Last week a clue was found...
...first clues in the printed list were not difficult. Hundreds followed them across Park Row from the Pulitzer Building into trolley cars, taxis and subways bound for Union Square (Broadway and 14th St.). On the way they puzzled this clue: "Symbolical term for a branch of the government (five-letter word...
...Pulitzer Building. There he explained to Douglas Fairbanks-who had been retained for the occasion to hand out the $1,000-what sheer luck it was that he had happened to be sitting on that particular bench, the tenth in the row, when he figured out the clue...