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

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

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

In 1817 he appeared as a violinist in public, and in this year composed a ballad, first called "Young Fanny" and afterwards, when sung in Paul Pry by Madame Vestris, "The Lovers' Mistake."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various