Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is tall, tending toward fleshiness in recent years. He has a broad mouth, which smiles easily, the sharp, inquisitive nose of the born prosecutor. A little fuzz is left atop his long head. He dresses neatly, quietly. He is a Methodist, Mason...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...
...Owner of Mason's tower is Powel Crosley Jr.'s 500,000-watt Radio Station WLW, strongest broadcaster on earth. WLW pointed out that the people of Mason, if they wanted to install the proper apparatus, could probably snatch enough power out of the air to cook their meals, wash & iron their clothes, clean their rugs, run their radios...
Last week's fleet in their blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned...
...CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason finds the bodies, antagonizes the police, sleeps little, solves his fourth murder case...