Word: clues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Groton's worried headmaster, Dr. Endicott Peabody, telephoned Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt in New York that her son was missing. "Well, call the police." said she. By morning the police had picked up the first ominous clue, in Springfield. Two boys had registered in a hotel as Dick and Henry Godernick, spent the evening, hurried out at midnight. In their room was found a letter: "Dear Mother: Soon will be home from school. It is all very boring. How is the baroness? Ha." There were also some school notes...
...main event of the meet will be a handicap treasure hunt, with only qualified pilots entered. Information is handed out at the start which gives a clue to the first destination. The flyers will not have to land on any field not an airport. Sometimes directions will be laid so that actual landing will not be necessary. After the order of ordinary treasure hunts, the first plane returning to the starting point having fulfilled the requirements is the winner...
There's Always a Woman (Columbia) builds up around rambunctious, banjo-eyed Joan Blondell a strong case for more blondes in the detective business. Skidding along on her intuition through a mystery that has as much mirth as murder, Private Detective Blondell bumps pertly from clue to clue, lands on the solution while the police and her sleuthing cinema husband (Melvyn Douglas) are still fumbling around...
Studying his old Chinese thighbones, Dr. Weidenreich decided that they belonged to a female who walked completely upright and was about 5 ft. tall. The males must therefore have been about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, so Sinanthropus was no pygmy. One of the thighbones was burnt -a grisly clue to Peking man's eating habits. "All the Sinanthropus bones," wrote Dr. Weidenreich, "recovered from Locality 1 of Choukoutien had received the same treatment as the game which Sinanthropus hunted. This hominid, therefore, was a cannibal...
...order to bring its holdings down to the 5,000,000 bu. allowed by the "gentlemen's agreement." Terming this "confiscation of the worst order," President John Hugh MacMillan Jr. of Cargill refused to comply and the Board stopped trading in September futures six days before settlement was clue, ordered all contracts closed...