Word: sherlocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Paul Douglas is justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...
...letter was addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street, London, England; it was postmarked Cleveland, Miss. Wrote 19-year-old Coed Laquita Joyce Bell of Delta State Teachers College: "Dear Mr. Holmes: My English teacher told me something would happen if I wrote you. He refused to tell me what. This aroused my curiosity, so here I sit, feeling rather silly, writing...
Yours Sincerely. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories in 1887, he picked 221B Baker Street because there was no such address; the numbers stopped short of 200. But in 1931, an eight-story office building was put up at 220-223 Baker Street by the Abbey National Building Society. Ever since, the London post office has turned over to the company an average of five letters a month addressed to Holmes at 221B, and the company has dutifully answered them...
...signed these replies "Yours very sincerely, Sherlock Holmes" was Samuel William Gibson Morton, a top company official. An old Holmes fan himself, Morton sent advice to farmers in Minnesota who were troubled by cattle thieves, to old ladies in Massachusetts who heard strange noises at night, and several times actually helped solve cases from clues supplied in the letters...
...Father Cornelius T. Sherlock, Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Boston: The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey of the Andover Newton Theological School; and Rabbt Maurice L. Zigmond, director of B'uat B'rith Hillel Foundation, discussed the duties of missionaries and religious institutional workers along with the duties and responsibilities of community clergymen...