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...minutes later a shot rang out from the floor above. Walker, according to his story, dashed up to a sleeping porch. There he found his friend unconscious, blood streaming from a bullet hole in his head. Over him bent his wife, throatily sobbing: "Smith's shot himself!" They rushed him to a hospital. While he was on the operating table, his wife was given a spare room. Nurses later reported that they found Mrs. Reynolds and Walker tussling drunkenly on the floor, heard her say she was pregnant. At dawn Smith Reynolds was dead...
...give a verdict of suicide, other officials demanded more investigation. A coroner's jury uncovered evidence of sex maladjustment. Mrs. Reynolds, almost hysterical, declared her mind was a total blank for July 5. "The only picture I have," she moaned, "is Smith standing over me on the sleeping porch. First he called my name. Then there was a flash and then that crash of the universe - just like every thing falling around me. And that feeling of his head in my arms and the warm blood." The jury concluded that Smith Reynolds had come to his death...
...against the suicide theory. Questions put to the grand jury: How did left-handed Smith Reynolds happen to shoot himself in the right "temple? If he was standing, as his wife said, how did the bullet which traveled downward through his head manage to cut a hole through the porch screen six feet above the floor? Why did detectives fail to find the .32 calibre Mauser, until Walker returned hours later from the hospital? What was the meaning of bloody fingerprints on the door jamb, of a bloody towel in the bathroom, of Mrs. Reynolds' slippers and sweater...
...reckless driving by Chief Elwood Lutz, fined by Justice of the Peace John H. Young. Exterminator Hogg telephoned Justice Young, inquired whether he had any bedbugs, received a negative answer. Said James Hogg: "Well, you will have." When Justice Young went home he found a bottle on the porch from which hundreds of bedbugs were streaming into the house...
...Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed as a competitor to Clark Gable, blunders about pleasantly as the police sergeant...