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...overseas, it hits him like a brick in the face. (Especially if he comes from Burma, where there was no looting: there was nothing to loot.) If Truth was the first casualty in the war, then ordinary Honesty also has been pretty badly mauled in the peace. The lurid signboard of this state of affairs is the Black Market...
Venezuela, the poverty-stricken source of fabulous oil fortunes, has the highest cost of living in South America. Gunther's small, windowless hall bedroom cost him $8 a day. The first thing he saw in Venezuela was a large signboard reading: CURE YOURSELF OF SYPHILIS...
...didn't get away from "The Get-Away," which features plenty of good close-ups of Tommy guns and a moral as big as a signboard: Don't rob defense payrolls. Personally, we preferred Bob Benchley's brand of "Crime Control...
...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...