Paul Pry
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In 1937, a book called For Your Convenience was published by the Limehouse Nights author Thomas Burke under the pseudonym Paul Pry.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2022
Paul Pry, Presidential Airedale, became vicious, was muzzled and offered to a Secret Service man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every single one of his winning mounts was a long shot: Sorgho, who paid $15.80 for $2 in the pari-mutuel machines; Running Lights, $29.30; Sun Galomar, $23.40; Grand Party, $20.80; Paul Pry, $12.70; Starlike, $46.30.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Roosevelt has for the last several years regarded the press less as the main instrument of public information than as an annoying Paul Pry, a kind of powerful Peeping Tom, bent on general snoopery.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Paul Pry says, I thought this "rather mysterious"; I therefore commenced locksmith, and knocked off the locks, when I found the rooms full of bales of silk and shawls.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
