Word: sherlocking
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Anyone who goes to the Union tonight expecting to see the traditional knight of the gum-shoe will be sadly disappointed in W. J. Burns. He has all the uncanny genius of a Sherlock Holmes, but he combines it with the calm, every-day matter-of-factness of the average American business executive. As organizer of one of the greatest detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded...
...disguise themselves as representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...
...following have been appointed members of the Regatta Committee: Riley Miles Gilber of New York N. Y.; Arthur Houghton Tully Jr. of Hollis, L. I. N. Y.; and Sherlock Davis of Brooklyn...
...Wilson himself expressed approval of this plan of collecting documents in addressing a delegation of six members of the club at the White House on Washington's Birthday. R. C. Stuart '21 headed the delegation, consisting of J. R. Williams '11, F. P. Stapleton 3L., F. S. Pollak '23, Sherlock Davis '24 and J. D. Winans...
Corliss Lamont of Englewood, N. J. (Chairman ex-officio); John Murray Begg of Guilford, Conn.; Isadore Black of Trenton, N. J.; Sherlock Davis of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harrison Dibblee Jr. of San Rafael, Cal.; George Dwight of Wayland; Seymour Piran. Edgerton of West Castleton, Vt.; Harry Eldridge of Hempstead, L. I., N. Y.; Charles Louis Gagnelin Jr. of Brookline; William Lloyd Garrison 3rd of West Newton; William Nahum Gates of Elyria, O.; Lewis Gordon of Glucester; John Upham Harris of Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; Barkle McKee Henry of Rosemont, Pa.; Kenneth Noyes Hill of Roslindale; Russell Sturgis Hubbard...