The new proprietor of Lee and Hol was a short-sighted, elderly man of no great conversational power, and apparently of no fixed purpose in life except to say "no" to the very handsome offers which the colonel's agents made when they discovered there was a chance of re-purchasing the business.
"Jack O' Judgment"
Edgar Wallace
"Now, then, the police over in Sleepy Hol-Annapolis-today learned the details of a yellow tragedy.
"Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis"
H. Irving Hancock
He pronounced the name of the celebrated detective of fiction "Shermlock Hol-lums."
"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective"
Ellis Parker Butler
