Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading public, aware of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's reaction to lurid publicity, may easily have guessed what his mental processes were when he saw advertised in last week's newspapers: "HOW LINDBERGH SMASHED THE CONSTANCE MORROW DEATH PLOT! . . . revealed ... in every true detail [in] True Detective Mysteries...
...revelation, occupying a dozen pages in True Detective Mysteries, was credited to Police Chief James R. Travers of Milton, Mass.,?"as told to Fred H. Thompson, formerly of the Boston Post." In infinite, fanciful detail it elaborates the dark story given out two years ago by newspapers: that Constance, youngest daughter of the Morrows, after receiving a threatening letter at Milton Academy, Mass., was stealthily whisked away and a decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer...
...volumes take up in broad detail: the body as a machine, biological classifications, evolution, history of life, behavior, feeling & thought, human biology. The Science of Life has 337 illustrations, 1,514 pages, 600,000 words, most of them readable. If you are interested in Life here is a good chance to do something about...
...commonplace reaction to the work of scholastic specialists in some obscure field of knowledge is an expression of amazement at so much time and labor spent on the dusty and the dead. In answer it must be said that it is by such dusty and often seemingly irrelevant detail that creative knowledge is broadened and the sum of human satisfactions is increased. Without the hum-drummery of fact-finding, Coleridge could never have reared in Xanadu the pleasure dome of the Khan. It is interesting to speculate as to what Coleridge would have made of the masterpiece in question...
...police description looks rather spiteful. Perhaps the product of some minor minion. Almost invites retaliation. What ingratitude! . . . O tempora, o mores! . . . Back in 1920, the most befitting legend over headauarters would have been "POLICE HEADQUARTERS, a branch of the Securities Exchange Co." Witness, the police detail assigned by the 'department to help me handle the crowd of investors...