Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleuths. When, in 1925, Wisconsin ruled that private detectives might not detect without state licenses, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, wounded, cried, "Unconstitutional!" Pinkerton had been planting "shop operatives" in factories to report to employers conditions among employes. Last week the Pinkerton cry was permanently stifled. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Wisconsin...
...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
Will not in this detect a bungler's hand...
...embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some navy-blue ones." Lovers are close for a moment, and the episode calls to mind not merely Beatrice and Dante but Saint Paul...
...Print Room at present is an exhibition of recently acquired facsimiles and photographs published by The Dial in 1923. There are paintings in oil, water colour, and tempera, drawings in crayon and pencil reproduced so miraculously that under glass it is impossible to detect them from originals. Picasso is there, Bonnard and Matisse, Vlaminck and Signac, and the Americans, John Marin and Charles Demuth, three of whose watercolors the Fogg acquired several years...