Word: ferret
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...defense, in resting its cast, entered strong protest against "the employment of police-spies to ferret into the affairs of the accused"; and charged that political factors had motivated the actions of the prosecution. Said Mr. Justice Swift, in his charge to the jury: "I would have you recall that if 9, crime is committed in secret, secret methods may have to be adopted in order to find it out. . . . Whether the defendants are being prosecuted by a rival political party or not is of no significance. ... If guilty, they are guilty, whether the prosecuting party be Conservative, Labor, Liberal...
Busy people should not be required to resort to a dictionary to ferret out your mysterious expressions when discussing ordinary happenings. I might.add also that some of your musical criticisms...
...next day, the wind falling, ravenous clouds of mosquitoes filled the sultry air and fattened on the white men as they fished for trout and salmon, shot seals, took pictures, exhibited their two Navy seaplanes and their radio apparatus to curious Eskimos, visited with the Rev. W. W. Ferret, head of the Moravian mission of Hopedale...
...title down in large letters and ponder over it, you will probably ferret out the significance. It is a story of an English bachelor with a past. The past is about to become all there is of his bachelorhood. He is marrying a U. S. heiress on the morrow. Only he does not know she is an heiress and she does not know he is an earl. Neither does she know about a married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late...
...Broadway, Manhattan, a crowd of men and boys, "whooping, yelling, laughing," gave chase to a "small white animal hopping and leaping along the pavement." One Griebe, patrolman, dove for the animal, clutched him with his buckskin gloves, took him to the station house. Experts said the animal was a ferret...