Word: derelicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place, in and about Manhattan, when the Mark of the Bat begins to be found near people with bullet-holes in their ribs, and in a house with a secret room...
...explanation that the instructor was making an example of him for his carelessness in following instructions. Granting without question the prerogative of the instructor to use whatever disciplinary devices he deems necessary to the mechanical requirements of the course, such primitive treatment smacks unpleasantly of that accorded a schoolboy derelict in conning his numbers...
Recently there stood in the dock of the Old Bailey, famed London law court, one more tatterdemalion derelict of the thousands that file in and out of that hall of Justice every year. His furtive, watery eye, his mumbled speech and disconsolate countenance marked him for a waif indeed. He was penniless, friendless, and without an advocate...
Over "that un," as he recognized the trap in which he had permitted himself to be caught, there passed dismay, mortification and sheepish acquiescence. Commanded by custom "that un" had no course but to accept the derelict's defense and look forward to the official fee of ?1. "That un" was no less a personage than Sir Travers Humphreys, Recorder of Chichester, Senior Counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) since 1916, one of London's most eminent attorneys. Ordinarily Sir Travers' fees never think of halting short of four figures...
...this woman was not entirely derelict. In her vanity case she had: 1) a mutilated passport picture of herself, with some notes scribbled on its back, 2) some British pounds and shillings, 3) a small silver mirror marked with the initials "V. L." Reporters were somewhat skeptical of the woman. One of the notes on the passport picture was the name of Elinor Glyn. A telegram to the famed novelist in California elicited the reply that she knew no woman of this description. One of the pressmen, the representative of The New York Herald-Tribune, thereupon refused to have anything...