Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger

Author:Leslie S. Klinger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2018-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

141.Vance paraphrases Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1842 poem “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”:

“Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.” Lady Vere de Vere became a stereotype of the English nobility.

142.A short, broad skull.

143.Neither projecting nor receding, making the face nearly vertical.

144.Medium-width.

145.The so-called satyr ear has an abnormally small upper portion; when the lobe is also underdeveloped, it is called the “devil ear.” “Darwin’s point” is on the inside of the earlobe. It was first described by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (where he called it the “Woolnerian tip,” after British sculptor Thomas Woolner, who incorporated it in his work) and is cited by Darwin as a vestigial feature proving common ancestry among primates. It is present in about 10 percent of the population.

146.In England, judges were in the practice of writing the adjudicated sentence in the margin of the calendar. When the sentence was capital, the Latin verdict “suspendatur per collum” (“hang by the neck”), abbreviated as sus. per coll., was entered.

147.Josef Stránský (1872–1936) conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1911 to 1923. César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (1822–1890), whose ideas about “cyclic” music had a strong influence on Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, is remembered today almost exclusively for his Symphony in D Minor.

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