Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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IT is in the nature of literate humanity to be sentimental about Sherlock Holmes, to desire a more intimate knowledge of the man than his cases vouchsafe, to ferret out his creator's inconsistencies only in order to dismis them airily, to raise the question of mortality merely as an...
Let it be said, further, that one can find little fault with Mr. Starrett's mode of selection. As far as is possible within 200 pages, he has touched upon all the interesting aspects of the Holmes saga. Illustrators, parodists, actors, imitators,--all come under his facile pen. One must...
As this year's gaily bedecked Exposition opened at Chicago's Union Stock Yards last week, Gentleman Farmer Thorne was again on hand. So was last year's winner, Will Largent of Merkel, Tex., who raises Herefords. So was thin-faced Walter Biggar from Dalbeattie, Scotland, who...
Tonight the Instrumental Clubs will hold their twelfth annual concert and dance at 8 o'clock in the Commander Hotel. Atreus von Schrader '34, who has been president of the Clubs for two years, announces the following program: "Veritas March." "On the Mail," and "Goofus," by the Banjo Club; Herbert...
Coach Stubbs used his goalies at the rate of one a period, and judging from the calibre of the work in this department, he has nothing to worry about. Captain deGive started out in the net, turning in an errorless record. He was replaced by Mittell in the second stanza...