Word: willing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapter XXI. These puzzles Detective Lippmann set himself to solve. Swishing-big words around like Philo Vance, he one-two-threed his argument, hauled in the suspects, pointed his finger at the guilty man at the end of Chapter XXI. Said he: Any man who has been President of the...
Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the...
True to the ritual of the modern detective story, which holds that the sleuth must deprecate his most brilliant exploits upon solving the case, Detective Lippmann figuratively yawned: "It will be a dreary morning after, when at last he announces that he is not a candidate."
That man was Pierce Butler, who died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the...
Conscience. Wrote Judge Knox: "In my judgment, however, Levy, in mind, heart and action, was venal and corrupt. . . . By virtue of the statute of limitations, he cannot here be prosecuted, but he can and will be disciplined. The discipline to be administered will be his disbarment from further practice before...