Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tombs with a Christmas necktie for his jailbird brother. The second act, laid in the Tombs, shows a jailbreak roughly based on the Tombs' 1926 break, the prisoners trying unsuccessfully to shoot their way out. Two characters, the boy's brother and a Mother Darragh, suspect that it was the keeper who framed the boy. The third act requires four lingering, sobbing scenes to expose the philanthropist as the villain and the Blight, make the remorse-ridden keeper agree, "All right, I'll jump" (from the roof), give the brother a gun with which to kill...
...your issue of Aug. 14, in writing about baseball, you use this expression: "Whether or not, as experts suspect, the National League Official ball was secretly made slower this year, the season of 1933 has so far been a pitcher's year...
DEAD MRS. STRATTON-Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Sleuth Sheringham, detecting a murder, finds himself the favorite suspect, has a narrow squeak, remains puzzled...
...seem strained to laymen. After accepting an invitation to serve at a show the judge is advised to retire into semi-seclusion, as far as dos shows are concerned, until time to enter the ring. Reasons: 1) the indispensable paying spectators will not attend dog shows if they suspect trickery; 2) knavish exhibitors believe all other exhibitors equally bad-intentioned...
Whether or not, as experts suspect, the National League official ball was secretly made slower this year, the season of 1933 has so far been a pitcher's year. Last fortnight Pitcher Jerome Herman Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who insists on being called by his nickname "Dizzy," broke a 25-year-old record by striking out 17 batters in one game. The Giants under Manager Bill Terry, who has organized the best pitching staff in the league, have unexpectedly stayed in first place against harder-hitting teams like Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago. Last week the Giants made...