Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Telegram's stories proved to be only the prelude to a blasting letter from District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to Chairman Hatton Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee (where impeachment proceedings start) on the subject of Judge Manton. Mr. Dewey reported that, after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide...
...step toward conscription (see p. 16). From Germany came alarming reports of troop movements: five new mechanized divisions had been created, two whole divisions, equipped for "desert operations," passed over the Brenner Pass into Italy headed presumably for Italian Africa, trucks were requisitioned and "spring" maneuvers were scheduled to start February...
Sorokin declares that "Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and other famous detectives always start with the main clue; find the motive and the criminal is discovered." The professor declares that crime cannot be traced to the door by mere discovery of a motive, since a motive can manifest itself in many overt acts...
...Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most of her time on stairways talking to the servants. When an inter-room telephone system was installed, the novel went swimmingly. Working seven hours at a stretch, she typed about 1,000 words...
...some of Author Martin's implications were to be taken seriously, democratic readers might well start after him in a posse. But these implications, like the story itself, are content to be arresting. The book, unlike the idea behind it, has lots of bang but little dynamite. Though General Manpower can justly be accused of ingeniously sketching out an ingenious notion, it will not be convicted of undue seriousness, in any court...