Word: sleuthing
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...other reporters, and most certainly of all you CRIMSON candidates, take note of the sleuth in New London and never let it be said that you have looked too much on wine of a Saturday night and were unable to concentrate on Sunday. The time when nothing happened in New England on Sunday is past. The New Deal has put seven days in the New England week. By TIME...
...trains like the Twentieth Century. He is accompanied by a stablemate, usually a horse named Anarchy whom he likes, by his Negro handler, Johnny Gaines, and his toy poodle. In Chicago, Cavalcade was annoyed by too many callers. Trainer Smith put him in another stall, substituted a horse named Sleuth which visitors, when told it was Cavalcade, freely photographed...
Also on the staff are Public Utilities Expert Cam Shalton, Sleuth John T. Rogers (who in 1931 got a bonus of more than $6,000 for solving the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly Jr.), Political Commentator Curtis Belts. When a big story breaks the Post-Dispatch sends so many men out to cover it, that rival newshawks complain that at the scene they can see nothing but Post-Dispatch men. The importance of last week's changes to the Post-Dispatch itself was not easy to predict. The paper has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Among...
...Reginald Hicks to the gallows for holding his father-in-law's head in an oven with the gas turned on. Reginald Hicks insisted that his father-in-law turned on the gas and stuck his own head into the oven. But, as a result of the great sleuth's finespun deductions, Reginald Hicks was hanged by the neck until dead. Last week Sir Bernard Spilsbury left London for Brighton hailed by Britain's more sensational newsorgans as "Europe's greatest criminologist...
...streets hunting for a bandit car reported seen with bullet holes in its windshield and rear windows. ¶In Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Federal agents swooped down on a hospital to seize Dillinger's pal, George ("Baby Face'') Nelson whose presence was reported by an amateur sleuth. They found the patient to be a traveling salesman for a correspondence school, taken ill on the road...