Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.C.D., as he pleases to be called, is the spawn of the man who created Sherlock Holmes, but where Holmes loved the world and its evils as a fit battleground for his mind, A.C.D. despises it. He set out to seek peace and returned with an account of a war that puts human efforts to shame--that of nature in the altogether...
Baker Street irregulars in Manhattan heard alarming news from London. The Sadlers Wells Company was presenting Sherlock Holmes in tights, with Dr. Watson dancing by his side to help thwart evil Professor Moriarty, in a ballet called The Great Detective. Such goings-on, rumbled the New York Herald Tribune in an editorial, are "nothing less than revolting . . . enough to outrage one's Victorian soul . . . We recall the prescient words of Sherlock Holmes himself: 'There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible...
Rhinelander is a tall man with sharply-cut features and a shock of reddish-brown hair that is fighting a losing battle with his bald spot. He sounds like Nigel Bruce, the radio Sherlock Holmes, except that he has a habit of emitting a short, high-pitched grunt when he speaks. Instead of doodling, students often tote up Rhinelander's grunts per minute in the margin beside their lecture notes...
Married. Gene Markey, 56, screen writer, producer (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes); and Mrs. Lucille Wright, 55, owner of the Calumet Farm racing stables; he for the fourth time (Nos. 1, 2, 3: Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr, Myrna Loy), she for the second (she is the widow of Baking Powder Magnate Warren Wright); in Manhattan...
...breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game! . . .' On one painful morning a clergyman of national reputation preached a sermon identical in text and argument with that used by an eminent divine the week before. A little Sherlock Holmes investigation disclosed the unfortunate fact that both were 'canned' sermons, evidently from the same source...