Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Pearl to an office where the jewel woman worked as a secretary, and pointed her out. She was slim, dark and glamorous. Pearl studied her face, as the detectives do in the cheap detective-story magazines. Later she began to shadow the woman...
Week after week, Rocco had called his wife's office to threaten her. He hung like a shadow around her home neighborhood. One day he poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...
...brief sober pause midway between Christmas and New Year's Eve, 358 delegates at the Chicago Conference sweated and politicked through a smoke-filled parliamentary maze. They knew what they wanted: no axe-grinding by existing youth organizations, no partisan domination by doctrinaire minorities, escape from the shadow of past failures in building a U. S. Students movement...
...Verdict (Warner), set in late 19th Century London, commits a leisurely murder in a locked room but fails to stir up much interest in whodunit. Either Sidney Greenstreet or Peter Lorre, both obviously untrustworthy characters full of guilty knowledge, lurks suspiciously in every shadow...
...schoolmaster-e.g., his report of a conversation he overheard between a couple of dreamy German lovers. "They discussed unrealistically how they would spend their honeymoon. They said they would get a Mercedes-Benz and travel. . . . What was extraordinary about this conversation was that . . . it was without the slightest shadow of guilt...