Word: snooper
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...information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from the embassy chimneys as files went into fireplaces, and on the embassy lawn a Russian stood guard with a hose over a bonfire, not hesitating to turn a full stream of water into the face of any snooper peering through the hedge. In Moscow the Russians held up the departure of the Australian embassy staff, after first ordering them out of the country within three days...
...table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send off a report signed with his code number. A few days later, the unsuspecting waiter would be reprimanded or sacked. The board, employed ten such male spies, paid each $300 annually, plus allowances for their "business meals" (about...
...blend of murder and mirth that succeeds in being neither mysterious nor particularly amusing. The action takes place in a Park Avenue apartment building which houses: a bashful theatrical manager (Van Johnson) who is also an amateur jazz drummer, a sleepwalking band singer (June Allyson). a murdered vice snooper (Stuart Holmes), a homicidal doctor (John Beal). a mysterious lady (Angela Lansbury) who materializes at intervals from a secret door...
...with its 6,000,000 members. He grew to power with Stalin's help. He was studying mechanical engineering and bossing the Communist cell in Moscow's High Technological School when Stalin spotted him in the 1920s and whisked him off to be his personal secretary and snooper. He became known as Stalin's walking card-index file...
...does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...