Word: haired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assumption, Professor Sorokin has done a good service in freeing the public from its incorrect conception of detective methods, gleaned from pulp magazines. His description of Holmes' methods might be opened to technical discussion, however, for Sherlock often tracked the criminal to his lair by identifying bits of fallen hair, bloodstains, and mysterious footprints...
...quavering, crackerish voice took up the tale: "Today I live at the Mississippi State Hospital in Jackson. Doctors there say I am about 70 years old. ... I am almost bald, and what hair I have is grey. ... I am five feet seven inches tall, and weigh 145 Ibs. My doctor believes I was well educated . . . and I am sure I was once familiar with financial statements. . . . I can identify unusual plants by their botanical names. . . . Also I remember the rules of complicated card games like bridge. "Gradually I have recalled several places where I have been. ... I remember best Pensacola...
...moved up through the ranks. He became a junior partner in 1920, same year Blair absorbed William Salomon & Co. In 1929, when Blair merged with the security affiliate of Bank of America (Manhattan's, not San Francisco's) to become Bancamerica-Blair Corp. Partner Streat's hair was thinning, his waist thickening, his friends spreading from coast to coast...
Most recently illuminated of all Near Eastern art traditions is that of Iran (Persia), whose present Shah welcomes celebration of his country's bygone glories. Chief illuminator is a tall, ruddy gentleman with thin grey hair who lives and labors alternately in a Park Avenue apartment and in a truck on the craggy passes of Iran. Mr. Arthur Upham Pope is director of the ten-year-old American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology...
...Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws men and men draw her-one pull goes with the other always...