Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staged by Hudson's Bay Inspector L. A. Learmonth with the aid of the wife of the Anglican missionary at Coppermine. The missionary's adopted daughter Ann posed prettily in white fox, with a rabbit cap (see cut). Eskimos Paulette and Doris draped themselves in choicest red and silver foxes from the spring catch, chose identical wolverine caps...
Sanitary Clauses. In Newark, Health Officer Charles V. Craster announced that an inspector-Santa Claus would snoop around to make sure that other Santas obeyed health rules: 1) no kissing children; 2) no wiping noses on gloves; 3) no dirty beards...
...Masters of Souls. It was right and natural that Party organizers and officials should get the good things first. Kalinin reminded them that they take the place of many Tsarist officials, "the police chief, the chairman of the district nobility, the chairman of the elected district council, the inspector of people's education, the dean of the cathedral...
...business was routine. The Council gave a $1-a-day raise (to $6) to rangers who search Maine's woods for lost persons; it increased one liquor inspector's salary from $33 to $39 a week; and approved various appointments of notaries public and justices of the peace. The meeting lasted an hour. Then the Council sat down to a feast of deer liver, bear steak and biscuits...
Belgian-born, 42-year-old Georges Simenon (real name: Georges Sim) is one of the world's most prolific authors. Before turning to "serious" fiction (of which The Shadow Falls is supposedly an example) he wrote 300-odd pulp novels and thrillers, including the stories which made his Inspector Maigret one of fiction's most famed detectives. But last spring the gumshoe was on the other foot. Sleuthhound Simenon was snapped up by Paris police and indicted. The charge: "intelligence with the enemy" during the German occupation...