Word: brentford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...
Something white wobbling at the bottom of Brentford Canal attracted three small boys last month. Soon they fished out a slimy human torso. In England the next thing to do in all such cases is to send for Sir Bernard Spilsbury...
Scrutinizing the Brentford Torso last week, England's real-life Sherlock Holmes, exclaimed: "Look at those freckles...
...others they might seem just freckles. To Sir Bernard Spilsbury the freckles on the Brentford Torso were scientific twins of the freckles on the Waterloo Legs...
...legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre...