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

Many of the Faces that I knew very like; and my Lord Brougham I did know directly, and Liston in Paul Pry.

From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Doyle, Richard