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...fell into the apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy's readers will remain who begin reading the book there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Chanin Building at 42nd and Lexington, Manhattan. It has 20 elevators, each with a different interior and all paneled with imported woods used ordinarily in jewel boxes and violins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Unfreezing Assets* | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Toad Venom | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

When hatched and grown, they developed into a little five-inch burnished cock, which shone like a jewel or a bird of paradise, and a more sober but exquisite hen. These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...finally a suitable and particularly sparkling jewel sets off the whole list when the agreement sums up, saying that these advertisements were published "when in truth and in fact the aforesaid captions and the representations and statements, as set forth in the aforesaid advertisements were in many instances not founded in truth and were otherwise misleading and confusing, and some of the aforeseaid representations as set forth in advertisements and advertising matter were beyond the probability of accomplishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/25/1929 | See Source »

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