Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final...
...Stevedore," the all colored performance of the New Theatre Players, originally scheduled for 8.30 o'clock this evening at the Repertory Theatre will not ring up the curtain until 9.30 o'clock...
...three or four attempts on the detective's life. He may never grasp the delight at the inevitable final threat, appalling as it always is. For we fans know that Charlie has only covered three or four cities in the world. This time it is Shanghai and a dope ring...
Harried by the police, who suspect him of murdering the counterspy, by the members of the ring, who soon find out that he is on their trail, and by a charming young lady (Madeleine Carroll) whom he picks up in the course of a wild night on the Scottish moors, Hannay plunges through a series of hairbreadth escapes and escapades, some of them horrifying, some of them extraordinarily funny. The funniest, possibly, is the one in which, mistaken at a political meeting for the speaker of the evening, he makes himself the hero of the occasion by an address composed...
...touched a President. His administrations are remembered less for their legislative measures than for the magnitude of their swindles. President Grant was publicly entertained by Gould and Fisk just before those crafty scoundrels tried to corner the country's gold supply. His confidential secretary took bribes from the Whiskey Ring. Even though he was not directly involved in the Credit Mobilier exposure, it placed him under popular suspicion. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," Henry Adams wrote, "was alone enough to upset Darwin." Corruption, bribery and precedence given measures for party expediency characterized his administrations, which...