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Spiders & Guillotines. The famed Holmesian deductive method is also unchanged. In "The Deptford Horror," for example, it is soon clear that Mr. Theobold Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror...
...understandable that the gossips had overlooked slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O., D.F.C., even though his picture had been appearing in the papers alongside Margaret for years. The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess' heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one. As a royal equerry and deputy master of King George VI's household (appointed in 1944 when Margaret was only 14), he had the constant duty of accompanying the royal family in all its lighter moments. Group...
...this piece of Holmesian expediency look to millions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia who have never heard of Mr. Justice Holmes, but who expect moral leadership from the U.S.? Said Pakistan's Bokhari: "With regard to free discussion, I do not believe that any country in the world has a more honorable record than the U.S. [But its] reversal today will be very hard to explain ... It would almost look as though the U.S. had made up its mind to do a quick U-turn in a one-way street. What the consequences will be I cannot...
...writes rhymes about cats to entertain their children and likes to address letters in verse ("Postman, propel thy feet/And take this note to greet / The Mrs. Hutchinson / Who lives in Charlotte Street . . ."). Eliot is a devoted Sherlock Holmes fan, is apt to emerge from his room clad in Holmesian dressing gown and slippers, and address his startled friend: "My dear Hayward, I am put in-mind of the incident in Bosnia, at the time of our struggle with the Professor over the Crown Prince's jewels...
...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...