Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark man said his name was Allen La Rue. Over drinks, he told Pearl that he was an insurance detective. He was after one jewel thief in particular-a woman he said toted her loot in a hip-belt under her dress. Somehow, he had to catch her with the jewels...
...took Pearl to an office where the jewel woman worked as a secretary, and pointed her out. She was slim, dark and glamorous. Pearl studied her face, as the detectives do in the cheap detective-story magazines. Later she began to shadow the woman...
Snap that Shutter. When she had the route cold, La Rue gave her the X-ray camera: a contraption about as long as a shoebox and camouflaged in Christmas paper. Pearl tried it out on the woman as she left her office, pulling the wire that clicked the shutter. But La Rue said the picture was no good. He would improve the camera, he said, and make it "super...
Follow that Woman. When he gave Pearl the new camera he had made, Rocco-La Rue told Pearl to go to Brooklyn and follow the jewel woman on her way to work. For Pearl the subway ride was more thrilling than anything she had ever read. She went over her instructions -wait until the train reaches Manhattan's Times Square Station, then shoot the picture at hip level, and beat...
Samuel Marshak's Twelve Months is the only surprise package in the book-and the best. Author Marshak is a translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...