Word: hunch
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...Negro daily in Harlem has always been the popularity of Manhattan's two morning tabloids, News and Mirror. Both papers used to print, inconspicuously inked in at the bottom of cartoons on the sport pages, a series of numerals which mystified white readers. They were random suggestions for hunch players in Harlem's famed gambling game of "numbers...
DESTROYING ANGEL-Norman Kline- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Tangled domestic relations, entwined with murder, bring Detective Jones to Up-the-Hudson society. Loud boorishness relieves him of the case, but a hunch proving correct brings the solution and his recall...
...vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Vacationing on Catalina Island, School-Teacher Hildegard Withers follows her hunch about death in an airplane. Without Oscar Piper by her side, with a casual police and an earthquake to hinder, Miss Withers emerges triumphant. THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, slick lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder to bring about a show...
Using the brain-toughener on the fistulous young woman was a "hunch" the immediate success of which amazed Dr. Cutler and his young associate, Dr. Robert Milton Zollinger. Protecting her throat from the caustic effects of the fluid, they merely flushed out the fistula. The flushing burned the lining of the fistula. As the walls healed they grew together, closing the abnormal passage in the neck...
When the Chicago thing was settled, President Hoover was not surprised. For months he had had a hunch that the Democrats would pick Governor Roosevelt to run against him. Mr. Roosevelt was his favorite candidate, the one he was told he could most easily beat. All aglow from medicine ball the President sat on the South Lawn of the White House with his fruit & coffee and listened to the second ballot at Chicago. That evening in the Lincoln Study he heard the fourth, final ballot. He had last seen "Frank" Roosevelt during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They...