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Word: sleuths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield exhibited a girlish physique as the heroine and Campbell Gullan, with a tykish burr, played the newspaper sleuth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...tremendous output of detective stories a goodly number attain the high standard of sportsmanship which gives the amateur sleuth a pleasantly difficult chance of spotting the criminal. Follows a list of recent good mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...platform was the U. S. Consul at Nice. Also, La Presse related an episode where Blackmer was supposed to have been invited ("lured") to a yacht for tea, where he would have been seized by his "enemies" (the U. S. Government) but for the alertness of his personal sleuth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fugitive Blackmer | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Partners in Crime. Wallace Beery, stupid sleuth, is told to "go and make a down payment on a brain, as everybody else has one." Raymond Hatton, sometimes a scampering reporter and sometimes a knife-wielding gangster, is the cause of Mr. Beery's bewilderment. There are funnier things in the world than mistaken identity, but they are not present in this film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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