Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nick Charles had been a private detective, had gladly retired when he married a well-to-do wife. Junketing in Manhattan with his congenial spouse (like all good Hammett characters, Nick is a dogged, early-&-late drinker), he finds himself gradually dragged into an annoying mystery. Clyde Wynant, half-crazy but successful inventor, a onetime client of Nick's, has awkwardly disappeared just when his secretary-mistress has been murdered. Wynant's lawyer, Wynant's remarried ex-wife both want him found, think Nick is the man for the job. But Nick is having too good...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like George Simon in Counsellor at Law, the hero of this picture, Ernest Barringer (Otto Kruger), is a criminal lawyer. However, if the two were arguing a case, the odds would be on Simon. Barringer has quick wits but he is a sentimentalist and a solitary drinker. These faults lead him into easily imagined predicaments. When a young girl (Irene Hervey) requests him to defend her father for killing her stepmother, Barringer glances at a photograph of the stepmother and utters a low neurotic moan. She is his onetime wife, whose portrait, for a decade...
Several books have also been written by professors here who are not Harvard graduates. Among these authors are Laurence E. Binyon. Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Raymond Leslie Buell, visiting lecturer in international Relations, and Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Philology...
...Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...
...Philip Drinker, associate professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Medical School, several years ago invented a respirator the rights to which were sold to the Collins Company according to Drinker. Subsequently J. H. Emerson of Cambridge invented and manufactured a simpler and less expensive machine which the Collins Company claims infringes upon their patents. As a result of the long litigation the University has ruled that the patents for all inventions perfected in University laboratories that affect public health should be taken in the name of the Corporation...