Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...credited the flight's success entirely to the Proletarian Revolution and the Communist Party. His companions, Ernest Birnbaum and Constantin Godunov, declared the balloon's scientific apparatus had worked perfectly. They found the sky at 11 mi. altitude a deep, soft violet ; they had been unable to detect the earth's curvature...
...Horses (libretto by Russel Grouse & Corey Ford; music & lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Owen Murphy). ''The locale of this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their audiences...
...first of your breed to sneak in here, and you can't deceive me; I knew you at a glance. You're a Jesuit. Get out, you scoundrel, before I do you an injury. Report to those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting a wife of slowly poisoning her husband but having no proof, Sutherland told her that her husband's food was not agreeing with him. He thinks she took the hint. (Author Hugh Walpole has this story in his last book, All Souls' Night...
Some customers are always trying to cheat the insurance companies, complained delegates to the American Life Convention in Chicago last week. Some cheat by committing suicide, some by hiding disabilities from which they soon die. Insurance company doctors by keeping alert may detect many a disease-hiding applicant. As for suicides, which have steadily increased throughout the world, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman who has been studying the statistics for Prudential Insurance Co. last week suggested more preventive organizations like the National Save-a-Life League and Vienna's Advisory Centre for Those Weary of Life (TIME, Dec. 7, 1931; June...