Word: bentleys
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...door and got in," Gold recounted. "The man inside seemed startled, but he seemed reassured when I gave him the recognition signal: 'I bring regards from Helen,' and asked how his wife was." "Helen" had been Brothman's old contact (and was, in fact, Elizabeth Bentley, then a Communist courier and now another witness against Brothman...
...Clerihew" is a verse of four lines of varying length in which the first two and last two lines rhyme. It gets its name from its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author (Trent's Last Case), poet, and contributor to the New Statesman. Sample "Clerihew" from a New Statesman competition...
...surprise is the mystery writer's stock in trade ... To rob him of this stock in trade by wholesale revelation in a review is not only unethical but actually damaging ... I am surprised, therefore, that TIME'S reviewer has stooped to do just this to E. C. Bentley's Elephant's Work [TIME...
...Author Bentley's trouble is that he has turned out neither a mystery nor a thriller, something Bentley seems to realize since he modestly decides that perhaps his book is only an "enigma." The real enigma is that the author of Trent's Last Case got stopped in his tracks so near the foot of John Buchan's steps...
...middle name which has also come to stand for a whole species of short, down-to-earth rhymes originated by Bentley himself. Sample Bentley clerihew...