Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spilsbury Sniff. Never a crime of "Spilsbury calibre" was the "Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary double-lifer, he has concentrated his serious ambition on his few novels, written his many magazine stories simply to make money. Though critics sniff at them, say they sound like thorns crackling under a pot, readers forgive him the pot for the sake of the crackling. Of this collection of 18 stories, all are reprinted from magazines...
Yapping loudly at the University of Illinois for many a month have been two self-appointed watchdogs of the public purse: O. S. Hitchner of Freeport and C. O. Ellis of Grayville. Watchdogs Hitchner & Ellis sniff out academic extravagance, then send pamphlets about it to Illinois newspapers and taxpayers. Recently they pounced upon Professor Alvin Robert Cahn of the Zoology Department, told how he spent the summer of 1932 in northern Minnesota investigating a tick which infested the moose of that region. Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis scornfully "estimated" that "this louse hunter" spent $12,000 of Illinois money in the interests...
...Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...
...scornful, if inaccurate, sniff of young modernists that in its 108 years the National Academy of Design has never produced a first-rate work of art. Neither, for that matter, has it ever produced a first-rate scandal. But last week it came dangerously close to it. Boiling with suppressed excitement, President Jonas Lie summoned newshawks to his studio, fed them cheese snaps & Scotch whiskey, and announced that for the first time in its existence the Academy had just expelled a member, "for conduct considered prejudicial to the Academy...