Word: thatcher
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...limits of program time-present its surface, the long lazy days and river night-falls of Hannibal, Mo. in 1870, and the adventures of some children there. Naturally, the adventures have been telescoped, but most of the best ones are left -Tom showing off for Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn and Joe Harper are in on the secret that Injun Joe and not old Muff Potter killed the doctor; playing pirate on a raft; coming to his own funeral. John Cromwell's direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot...
...lovely girl disappears. A blood-spattered love-nest is discovered. Her fearfully hacked body is found buried in the bushes. How Thatcher Colt came to the correct but astounding solution may have staggered his district attorney but will not seem unduly out-of-the-way to hardened detective-story readers...
...detective makes his appearance with this mystery-murder; his author promises more later. Thatcher Colt, a combination of Grover Whalen and Philo Vance, was one of New York City's Police Commissioners you may never have heard about. "What [he] really wanted was to be a musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall...
...wife arrives at Reno for a divorce generally under instructions from her personal attorney at home who refers her to his "correspondent" in the city. Reno's biggest law firm: (William) Woodburn & (George B.) Thatcher. Residence is immediately established in a housekeeping apartment or at the smart comfortable Riverside Hotel. Excessively exclusive folk go to the TH dude ranch 30 miles away, or to Mounte Crese ranch 18 miles away. Loneliness soon vanishes in the colony's common purpose. Di versions are plentiful. Fashionable gam bling, dancing, drinking are wide-open. Such roadhouses as the Willows...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...