Word: sherlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Tracy, Sherlock Holmes, and even Hawkshaw the detective were discredited when a refutation of their methods of crime detection was unveiled today in the form of a volume entitled "Time Budgets of Human Behavior," by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Clarence Q. Berger, a former colleague...
Sorokin declares that "Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and other famous detectives always start with the main clue; find the motive and the criminal is discovered." The professor declares that crime cannot be traced to the door by mere discovery of a motive, since a motive can manifest itself in many overt acts...
...proof of this assumption, Professor Sorokin has done a good service in freeing the public from its incorrect conception of detective methods, gleaned from pulp magazines. His description of Holmes' methods might be opened to technical discussion, however, for Sherlock often tracked the criminal to his lair by identifying bits of fallen hair, bloodstains, and mysterious footprints...
...Cast in the role of Sherlock Holmes in Twentieth Century-Fox's forthcoming Hound of the Baskervilles was lean, long-nosed Basil Rathbone. Watson: Nigel Bruce...
...philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective Holmes, said Mathematician Darwin, was using the real scientific method...