Word: locked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...
Under Point 16 every Hungarian girl would be compelled to put on at 12 years of age the sort of iron girdle which jealous Hungarian knights used to lock around their ladies before riding off to the Crusades. In this 20th Century, proposed the Awakened Magyars, "The key to each girl's girdle is to be kept by her father or other competent authority until her marriage contract is signed, when it is to be delivered to the husband...
...Rudi's fault. When one of Carla's accomplices shoots Rudi so that they may escape, Rudi's face brightens.--We know that they use blanks in Hollywood. But why not pretend?--"Blessings on you, Carla," says Rudi as the bullet pierces his arm, or chest... "Sooch a lock of patriotism, not to shoot the spy." The director paled. "Don't be crazy, Professor. They shot Mata Hari, and Marlene Dietrich in her spy picture. And did the public eat it, did the public eat it? No. The public wants realism...
...family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...
Cause of the blockade was the rage of old-fashioned bargemen, whose boats are towed by horses, mules, and not infrequently by women, at advanced competitors who motorize their ships. Motorized barges can travel at night. Motorized barges have bought or wheedled precedence from French lock keepers...