We can also learn a dozen things from a a cigarette. Anybody who smokes a cigarette reveals secrets through the saliva that remain on the end. Even though many months have elapsed since it was smoked.
15 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:39:23 in the radio play.
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- What can you learn from those whose tresses are a bit more abundant?
- You'll do fine as long as you have a single hair left on your head.
- Saliva tells us to what blood group the man who smoked the cigarette belongs.
- I can see it's getting harder and harder to commit murder.
- Not to commit it, but to get away with it.
- But while we solve crimes, the public can do far more than we can do in preventing them.
- Don't be intimidated by the threats and boasts of racketeers.
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