Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trail...
Detective Thomas J. Tunney of the New York City police department, brother of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney,* was put on the trail of two unknown young men who had robbed an automobile of a $8,474 payroll, in the bright morning sun, near an entrance to Central Park, Manhattan. The young men were very bold about it, told the old man and the girl bookkeeper who were guarding the payroll to "Shut up." Detective Tunney, recently promoted, has a reputation of getting...
...heart of the cattle country at Red Fork Ranch on the Chisholm Trail" is the locale of this absolutely fresh, vigorous and entertaining story of cowboys and Indians in the Southwest of the 1880's. Far from being of purely juvenile interest it has an historical value all the more welcome because of the authentic perspective it furnishes of the lives of our western forefathers, and the vast movements of humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels...
...forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter-brain scared to collect the money, they run away and finally trail along with a traveling carnival. Amelia, as ticket-collector in shabby velvet, attains a certain dreary happiness...
...philosopher and a psychiatrist goad-the police on the trail of a hypnotic maniac, but involve a peroxide blonde...