Word: brentford
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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...
Died. William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Lord Brentford, 66, British statesman, Stanley Baldwin's Secretary for Home Affairs (1924-29); of heart disease and lung congestion developed from a cold caught on a West Indian cruise; in London. Abandoning law in favor of politics, Lord Brentford first gained fame by defeating Winston Churchill for a Parliament seat in 1906. A stanch Conservative, he first obtained office in Bonar Law's 1922 cabinet, was made Home Secretary two years later, successfully handled the coal strike and the general strike...
...Viscount Brentford, famed as Sir William ("Jix'') Joynson-Hicks during his Mrs. Grundyish term as Home Secretary (1924-29). with emotion...