Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loving a gentleman ever order a "third degree?" The mere notion of such a thing profoundly shocked the Prime Minister's friends last week, but he did give certain orders. As a result ten Scotland Yard detectives entered at about midnight the London home of Citizen John T. Kirk. Frightened Mrs. Kirk saw her husband grilled by the ten, grew frantic while he stubbornly refused to tell something the Prime Minister wished to know, finally became hysterical and by her pleading broke down the resistance of Citizen Kirk, who then told...
Working fast, the Yard forced Assistant Editor W. O. R. Griffiths of the Daily Chronicle to divulge "under protest" that Parliamentary Correspondent John T. Kirk had ferreted the secret. Routed out and third-degreed, Mr. Kirk at last uttered a name which flabbergasted his ten tormentors, the name of no petty civil servant but that of their superior, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the Cabinet Minister in charge of Scotland Yard, the Right Honorable John Robert Clynes...
...Weather Fade Out. As finally divulged last week, the true story of the leak began with Correspondent Kirk idling near the door from which the Cabinet emerged after making their historic decision. Entering casually into hot weather gossip with statesmen he knew, Mr. Kirk remarked to no one in particular, "I suppose the Cabinet agreed to arrest Gandhi...
...involuntary "Yes" betrayed the secret. But so well did Correspondent Kirk control his features, so unobtrusively did he melt out of the conversing circle, that not even the "betrayer" realized what he had done...
...boat in question was owned by a man whose name happens to be Munroe, but there is not the slightest relationship or connection with Kirk Munroe...