Word: clues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lamie's restaurant at Hampton, New Hampshire, was announced as the destination of special detective Edward Glennon of the Cambridge police this morning, as the sleuth left to track down "the most promising clue" in the three-week-old disappearance of Sylvester Gardiner...
...gave no clue* to his ultimate decision, probably some weeks hence. Businessmen hoped he would get the genie back into the bottle by finding that all the makeready time was a "trifle." But all the Judge wryly said was: "I'm the only one who has been consistent in this case - consistently wrong...
When mystery story writer Craig Rice was covering the Heirens murder story for a Chicago paper, Hillman called to get some dope on her assignment, was invited to go along on "a terrific clue that may break the case." It turned out to be some strange pencil scribblings on a package that one of Rice's readers had received from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It was, of course...
...reason Protestant chaplains received less recognition is a clue to the reason Protestant churches as a whole make less impression on the channels of public persuasion...
Religious humanist Hesse is a novelist and poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...