Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sherlock Holmes, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, just sensationally foiled in Brighton Trunk Murders No. 1 and No. 2 (TIME, March 4), last week had on his laboratory table two human legs, neatly cut off below the kneecap. They were found last week under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station...
Since English editors make it their duty to shield the public from certain facts of life, they deduced from Sir Bernard's findings not that the Waterloo legs had belonged to a pervert but that the murdered man "may have been attending a masquerade party...
Five days later two human legs were found under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station and Scotland Yard was off on a fresh mystery. The Waterloo legs, according to Sir Bernard Spilsbury, are male...
After these squelching words, the Person-Of-The-King majestically stalked out and the Legislature, as prearranged, chose South Waterloo's affable Norman O. Hipel to be "Mr. Speaker." Conducted to the steps of the Throne, Mr. Hipel gave thanks, then stepped out to don the Speaker's black robe and tricorn hat, after which he returned to stand at one side of the Throne. With everyone at attention, back came the Person-Of-The-King, in gold-laced jacket and with jeweled sword, to read the Speech from the Throne-written of course by "Mitch" & Cabinet...
Born in small Waterloo, Ont. and raised in Michigan, Isaiah Bowman got a B. S. at Harvard in three years, a Ph. D. at Yale in three more. Every few years after that he was off to South America, teaching at Yale between expeditions. In 1915 the American Geographical Society called him to Manhattan as its director. The yarn-swappers of the Explorers' Club came to know him as a vigorous organizer who raised $350,000 to finish a large-scale map of Hispanic America. In 1931 he was elected president of the International Geographical Union...