Word: hotfooted
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...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
...Jersey State Legislature, never noted for its dignity, outdid itself one night last week. A hillbilly band twanged while some lawmakers applauded, some moaned. A fireworks bomb exploded. Members gave dozing colleagues the hotfoot. Dice and cards rattled in anterooms, and bars in the vicinity of the State House did a brisk trade...
...STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an adulterous Maryland tryst...
...came back several days later, he was amazed to find that the dog was well. As it must on all researchers, an intimation dawned on him: he had been giving his dogs too much irradiation; ultraviolet rays in large amounts are deadly, in tiny amounts have natural curative power. Hotfoot to the dog pound for more dogs went Mr. Knott...
Grace Moore, sweet singer from Jellico, Tenn. landed in Manhattan, said she would conclude her U. S. appearances posthaste and hotfoot back to Europe in the hopes of driving an ambulance, because she wants to "do something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have...