Word: sherlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waldemar Wysocki in the 175-pound class, and Ed Whitney at 135 pounds, each took quite a beating to lose decision to Danielson and Linthicum. Henry Sherlock, 125-pounder, used agile footwork and wide hocks to win a decision over Bailley, while Don Sleeper defeated Thompson, Yale's 115-pounder after knocking him down in the second round...
...Majesty's Government's real-life Sherlock Holmes, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, just sensationally foiled in Brighton Trunk Murders No. 1 and No. 2 (TIME, March 4), last week had on his laboratory table two human legs, neatly cut off below the kneecap. They were found last week under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station...
Pronouncing them male, Sir Bernard scraped the legs, analyzed the scrapings. "Peroxide," he observed. "Evidently used to whiten the flesh." Traces were also found of a depilatory. But it was the bones of the toes and insteps which interested Sherlock Spilsbury most. "Toe bones abnormally cramped." he said. "Insteps abnormally arched, as if deformed from wearing women's high-heeled shoes. Um, most curious...
...loss of Joe Nee necessitates shifting Wysocki up to 175 pounds and filling his place with Eddie Davis, football captain and wrestler at Milton last year, Davis boxed his first intercollegiate match against Dartmouth intramural champions two weeks ago, and put his man away with a technical knockout. Sherlock. Ellis, and Oakes will remain in their present classes, and Whitney, who showed his possibilities against Staunton, is again taking his place at 135 pounds. In spite of these ineligibilities, Coach Lamar considers this lineup the strongest one which he has put into a meet this year...
That the Home Office has, in bland, knowing Sir Bernard Spilsbury a Sherlock Holmes who never fails, is a settled Empire conviction. Did he not send Crippen to the gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder...