Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detectives, falls in love with one and unintentionally kills the other with knockout drops, trics in vain to go to jail for her numerous misdeeds, and then deserts her inquisitorial lover on the likely grounds that she is not good enough for him. There is a very sage Swiss inspector who sees through the detective's transparent fabrication to cover the adventuress, and advises that they part. He is the only acceptable character in the play. For the others interact with a combination of such elephantine whimsy and strained heroics, that neither they not the action they produce is more...
Boston Postal Inspector Breslein stated yesterday, "I have received no official notification" and could not say what steps would be taken in prosecution. At present the Postmaster merely contemplates the collection of postage due from the New York League for the fliers confiscated from the mailboxes Monday...
Seven hundred and eighty-third deputy inspector Murphy J. Murphy, of the Post Office Department delivered another telling blow when he banned Lampy from the mails. "Such smut!" he stormed. "Imagine publishing a parody of 'Breezy Stories'! Wit pitch-as, too. Geez, wot nudes, wot frivolity. It stinks. Enough is enough...
...your information may I state that the accident took place at approximately 3:05 p. m. on the afternoon of Jan. 10, 1938 and that the Bureau of Air Commerce inspector, Mr. A. D. Niemeyer, sent a telegram to Northwest Airlines at 3:59 p. m. on Jan. 11, 1938 from Bozeman, Mont., grounding such planes until further notice. That evening, a confirmation order was sent to the airline company from the Washington office, confirming the action of Inspector Niemeyer...
Since close-mouthed silence in political matters is the rule among army officers of the Great Powers, Frenchmen attached unusual importance last week to a brief statement by General Julien Claude Marie Dufieux. Inspector General of Infantry and of Schools for Officers, a Wartime protege of Marshal Petain. General Dufieux coolly announced that two months ago he received convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief...