Word: signboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention firmly fixed on convictions, the drudgery of detective work was more important than individual brilliance; confessions were better than the most artful chains of circumstantial evidence; medical analysis was tricky and unreliable, since doctors often disagreed. Greatest anticlimax of Cornish's professional career came when a young signboard fixer named Field confessed to the murder of Norah Upchurch. Scotland Yard had only circumstantial evidence against Field, suspected when Norah Upchurch's body was first discovered, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder against some person unknown. No progress had been made until Field...
...limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk backward nine steps and forward nine steps, cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath...
...received into the French Academy. Five years after he had promised it, the Academy lost patience and gave him a month. In seven days Watteau dashed off the Embarquement pour Cythère. Again, to limber up his fingers, he painted in eight days the famed signboard for the decorator's shop of his friend Gersaint, which somebody later cut in two. Frederick the Great, however, picked up both halves...
...Stade Roland Garros, near Paris last week the blank space reserved for the name of the Davis Cup winners was barely big enough for the word FRANCE, too small for the name of France's opponent in the challenge round, GRANDE BRETAGNE. The painter of the signboard explained how this had come about. He had reserved a space just big enough for ETATS UNIS for the winner of the matches between the U. S. and England. When England amazingly beat the U. S., he had to use GRANDE BRETAGNE instead. There was no room to use it again...
...China. When people finally take their dream-trip to Paris they notice that it is on a river, that nearly every street is flanked by rows of shade trees, that the sidewalks teem with cafes, that French officials wear evening dress at day-time functions, and that many a signboard bids one to start the next meal with a Dubonnet...