Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metcalf said last night that these comparisons were interesting, but that numbers of books published or kept Widener, provide no certain clue to a man's standing in the academic world. "One must be careful not to company appeals with pears he said, pointing not that some authors work for decides on a since book whereas other fields are suitable for more frequent publications...
...obscurity a number of years ago when Frank Sinatra sand a lyric of which the third verse consisted entirely of "ali-dabi doopy da pha. Oh! fee dee de bah bippidy Oh!" The song, as I remember, was called "An Old Stone House," which seemed to offer no satisfactory clue to the interpretation of the lyric. Although my work and ultimate understanding of this verse makes a fascinating story, I would rather take a contemporary and somewhat easier example...
...equally archdetective (an amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than his pseudonym, Flambeau. To play this sort of thing in any but the Edwardian dress and spirit is as an acronistic as expecting Sherlock Holmes to track Dr. Moriarity with radar and an all-point bulletin. Still, Guinness and Peter Finch, as Flambeau, do their best to ignore the modern...
...buttons, in his mouth. A mean-spoken cynic promptly accuses the cripple of shamming, and after a vain, mumbling plea for "confidence," Black Guinea slinks off the boat at the next landing. Black Guinea is the first of many disguises assumed by the confidence-man and the clue to Melville's bitter moral. He mulcts the fools who believe in him, but can only be exposed by knaves who have no jot of faith...
After the contest started four months ago, the paper picked up about 70.000 new readers. To win the $25,000 in prizes, contestants have to guess the names of towns in New York state represented by scram bled anagrams (see cut) and described in such clues as: "People of one religious faith from all over the state gather here for an annual meeting. It is a small country village and was first settled about 1790.* As the Trib expected, so many contestants solved the first 54 Tangle Towns that the paper started a series of tough tie-breakers...