Word: theobold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiders & Guillotines. The famed Holmesian deductive method is also unchanged. In "The Deptford Horror," for example, it is soon clear that Mr. Theobold Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror...
...agitation for Lenz's removal began almost immediately after his opposition to the proposed banning. In September 1951, John J. Theobold, President of Queens College warned Lenz that "polite pressures" had been exerted for his removal. He indicated that "unpleasant consequences" might follow from Lenz's continued outspoken political views. Lenz is the vice-Chairman of the New York State...
...removal. Placards and chalked-up signs "Don't lease Lenz to the German Department" were displayed on the Queen's campus. And at the semi-annual meeting of the Faculty Division of Languages, Literature, and Art, one third of the entire faculty passed five resolutions condemning President John J. Theobold's action in dismissing Lenz...
According to Theobold, Lenz was dismissed to make room for an expanded student activities program. Lenz was ill equipped, Theobold contended, to provide the "professionally trained leadership" the new program required...
...faculty resolutions challenged Theobold's contention that Lenz was no longer suited for the job. "He has won the regard and respect of students, and won our regard and respect in his struggle against internal obstacles and external attacks...