Word: holmesian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to try a twist at the tail of the cosmos," wrote the late "Great Dissenter," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, to a philosopher friend. The letters, published for the first time last week, were composed in a scrawl and were knotty with Holmesian twists...
...hung eight profiles of hawk-faced Sherlock Holmes, a curved pipe pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull. Five orange pips lay on one table. On another stood a porcelain Hound of the Baskervilles. The guests raised their glasses, drank to Holmesian characters and places-"To THE Woman," "To Mrs. Hudson," "To Mycroft." Along with place cards, women guests found Holmesian cryptograms-a single red rose and a mysterious note: "Dear Miss -, See you at 2216. Sincerely, John H. Watson." In one corner Author Christopher Morley, in a hunting cap, peered...
...were members or friends of the ten-year-old Baker Street Irregulars (hosts at the Murray Hill dinner), a strictly stag club with branches in Boston, Chicago and Akron. Its two officers bear strictly Holmesian titles: President Christopher Morley is Gasogene-&-Tantalus (Holmes kept his whiskey in a tantalus, his soda water in a gasogene); Secretary-Treasurer Edgar W. Smith is Buttons (pageboy in several Holmes stories). Franklin Roosevelt is an Honorary Irregular. This was the first dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars to which women have been invited...
...detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his smoke-filled rooms at London's 2216 Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason...
...Profile by Gaslight (Simon & Schuster: $2.75), edited by Edgar W. Smith, a collection of serious Holmesian studies and whimsies by 36 Holmes admirers, including the late Heywood Broun, Dorothy Sayers, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Rex Stout; The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Little, Brown: $2.50), edited by Ellery Queen, 33 Holmesian parodies by Doyle idolaters, from Mark Twain to Vincent Starrett; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Harcourt, Brace: $2), which reprints five famous Holmes stories, edited and copiously annotated by Christopher Morley...