Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual as any greybeard or official waistcoat in the yard. He is a loveable, tragic figure, walking hither and yon, like the inevitable canine, on the heels of a great idea. That his idea may fail to take tangible form bears little weight; for in the unending pursuit, he has produced some very pleasant by-play...
...reasonable distance. Sent from the hand of an excitable person evisioning rewards, the bullet is more than likely to pass through several estimable citizens before it reaches some suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition agents have taught the country the menace of the armed pursuit of offenders. Both the security of Texas banks and an offective, sensible handling of social enemies are laudable ends, but the means chosen by these bankers to attain them must, at least, be questioned...
Police shots spattered after the ragged, running man. He dropped. The parade broke back for the "Wobbly" hall, the police in pursuit...
...greater part of a college in its grip. Discussion of the most appalling examination yields to the universal question of "who killed him?" Mr. Philo Vance to say nothing of his anonymous creator must be gratified in spite of his indifferent pose at the numbers who follow his monthly pursuit of the criminal; and when at last his efforts are crowned with inevitable success, he will have the satisfaction of seeing a distinct loosening of tension in a community not usually distinguished for its interest in anything...
Pierre becomes involved when he engineers an abduction--object matrimony--this of Mam'selle Bonvalet. Her fiance and the General, both Legionnaires, turn out in pursuit. It is not until after a hectic harem scene and a few Sahara serenades that "The Shadow" ("Shad", for short) emerges the winner on points: the Parisenne on one arm and a reconciled father on the other...