Word: yardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaslights dim as if gas were being turned on somewhere else in the house. Shuddering in her bedroom, his wife hears noises in the boarded-up attic. But she half-believes that these must be personal delusions until, in the nick of time, a suspicious (and eligible) Scotland Yardsman (Joseph Cotten) makes clear to her that ophidian Mr. Anton has good reasons, murderous and avaricious, to ripen his wife for the madhouse...
They arrived in Washington with equerries, maids, a Scotland Yardsman, three Cairn terriers-Delto, Breezy and Pooky -106 pieces of luggage. They were prepared to be met by official lukewarmth, unprepared for a tumultuous, sigh-heaving, welcome-shouting crowd that followed them hour by hour. Both were sartorially splendid; both made Protean clothes-changes. The Duchess had her hair done by Hairdresser Emile on one side and Emile Jr. on the other. The Emiles reported no grey hairs on either side; achieved a soft upsweep wave over the ears that fetched applause from newshens. The Duke, wrote the male press...
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