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Wiki: "His luggage, which followed the taxi in a small pantechnicon, made him a prominent figure at the office of the Air Line."

Wiki: "An imposing man: Cruttwell Glacier in Spitzbergen, Cruttwell Falls in Venezuela, Mount Cruttwell in the Pamirs, Cruttwell’s Leap in Cumberland, marked his travels; Cruttwell’s Folly, a waterless and indefensible camp near Salonika, was notorious to all who served with him in the war."

Word: "Chipped by careless handlers, obnubilated by the steep passage of time, it still retained on its surface the imprint of seas and continents."

1. To darken, dim, cover, or hide with or as with a cloud; to obscure, render indistinct.

Wiki: "A nameless dick sat at another desk and kept talking into an old-fashioned hushaphone telephone mouthpiece, so that his voice sounded like someone whispering in a tunnel."

10. The Salad of Colonel Cray, 3 stars. The attempted murderer betrays himself by sneezing.
11. The Strange Crime of John Boulnois, 3 stars. Reporter comes all the way from America to interview an intellectual.
12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown, 3 stars. A prince is shot by a disarmed enemy, beers with a special friend.

07. The Purple Wig, 3 stars. Rag reporter uncovers the secret behind a family curse.
08. The Perishing of the Pendragons, 3 stars. Father Brown ends another family curse with a garden hose.
09. The God of the Gongs, 1 star. Black boxer is a secret voodoo assassin.

04. The Man in the Passage, 3 stars. An actress is murdered in front of several famous (but unreliable) witnesses.
05. The Mistake of the Machine, 3 stars. Excitable man makes flimsy evidence justify his narrative.
06. The Head of Cæsar, 3 stars. Heiress gives a family heirloom to a lover, gets blackmailed.

01. The Absence of Mr Glass, 3 stars. Secretive man with a mysterious job wants to marry a nice catholic girl.
02. The Paradise of Thieves, 3 stars. English family encounters some brigands in Italy.
03. The Duel of Dr Hirsch, 3 stars. Man is publicly denounced as a traitor, but the evidence is backwards.

Wiki: "Say, let’s listen to Charlie McCarthy."

Wiki: "He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his…"

Wiki: "For the past month this accursed place had had the mournful appearance of a lazaretto during an outbreak of the plague."

Wiki: "... the count’s involuntary exclamation of surprise had been enough to startle the man, who had remained in the pose of the antique knife-grinder."

Wiki: "After the cachucha, he slipped a superb ring on the stems of a bouquet and threw it to the delightful ballerina, who reappeared in the third act with the ring on her finger, as a tribute to him."


La Cachucha by Juan Bockamp

Wiki: "But my father had no wish to leave Florence, and indeed instead of a reward as soon as Jacopo Salviati was elected Gonfalonier his position at the palace was taken from him."

Wiki: "You look like the Wreck of the Hesperus."

Wiki: "I remember Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright bringing a police rattle into the Drones one night and loosing it off behind my chair, and I just lay back and closed my eyes with a pleasant smile, like someone in a box at the opera."


From Our Archives - Whistle & Rattle by GM Police

Wiki: "He sprang from the bed, and for an instant stood looking exactly like a picture my Aunt Agatha has in her dining-room – The Stag at Bay – Landseer."

Word: "A frightful oik, and a mass of side to boot."

Depreciatory schoolboy word for a member of another school; an unpopular or disliked fellow-pupil. Also gen., an obnoxious or unpleasant person; in weakened senses, a ‘nit-wit’, a ‘clot’. Hence ˈoikish a., unpleasant, crude; ˈoickman.

Fashion: "How wonderful she must have looked in beach pyjamas!"

29. Frost and Fire, 2 stars. People breed like fruitflies, averaging an 8 day lifespan.
30. Uncle Einar, 3 stars. [2018]
31. The Time Machine, 2 stars. Children prompt an old man to ramble for their entertainment.
32. The Sound of Summer Running, 3 stars. Kid sweet talks a shop owner into giving him new shoes on credit.

26. Here There Be Tygers, 3 stars. Astronauts find a paradise planet, if you treat it with kindness.
27. The Strawberry Window, 3 stars. Family feels homesick on Mars, husband pays to have home shipped to them.
28. The Dragon, 3 stars. Knights get the creeps waiting around for a dragon to kill.

23. A Sound of Thunder, 3 stars. Big game hunter doesn't follow instructions, mangles the future.
24. The Long Rain, 3 stars. Soldiers get lost in the permanent rain, go mad with sogginess.
25. The Exiles, 2 stars. Forbidden literature lives on another planet, space puritans wipe it out.

20. The End of the Beginning, 2 stars. Nervous parents watch their son's rocket launch.
21. The Rocket, 2 stars. Dreamer spends money his family can't afford to play astronaut.
22. The Rocket Man, 3 stars. Pilot rarely sees his family, wife copes with it by pretending he's dead.

Wiki: "And Byrne occupied himself in the meantime by knapping and dollying what he picked out as a ‘kindly stone’."

Song: " New Holland is a barren place,
in it there grows no grain,
nor any habitation
wherein for to remain…"

The Lowlands of Holland by Dave Burland

17. The Great Fire, 3 stars. Visiting teenaged relative devotes all of her brain power into being boy crazy.
18. The Golden Apples of the Sun, 2 stars. Men in a chilly spaceship scoop out some sun goo to take back home.
19. R Is for Rocket, 3 stars. Boy's dream of being selected to become an astronaut comes true a little earlier than expected.

14. Sun and Shadow, 3 stars. Local man objects to fashion photographers using his home as set dressing.
15. The Meadow, 2 stars. Night watchman gets too emotionally involved in the movie sets he's guarding.
16. The Garbage Collector, 3 stars. Man is dismayed about his potential new work duties if things should go south.

11. The Great Wide World Over There, 3 stars. Illliterate woman is excited to send/receive letters via her visiting nephew.
12. Powerhouse, 2 stars. Woman is comforted by electricity in her moments of grief.
13. En La Noche, 4 stars. Man takes one for the team when a hysterical woman keeps everyone awake all night.