Talk:The League of Frightened Men
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Infobox image width
editWhen the spine of the book jacket is included in the infobox image, I've sized it at 260 pixels wide instead of 200. — WFinch 13:19, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Present Tense?
editWhy is the section "Plot introduction" of the article in the present tense? That's asinine and idiotic. Also, the story is in the past tense, and it is a narrative: it is not happening NOW. Please fix the section to the correct tense. Thank you. --Desertphile (talk) 05:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Present tense is customary. The book, its chapters, and thus its fictional events exist now. —Tamfang (talk) 05:58, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Unfamiliar word
editI would suggest that "rodomontade," in chapter eight, is even less familiar than viva voce or juridical, actually! --GLG, 9/3/09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.152.94.132 (talk) 11:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
- Unfamiliar to whom? Few of these so-called "unfamilar words" are unfamiliar to me. Unless there is a source (and if there is, it hasn't been cited) that Stout deliberately used words he considered "unfamiliar" in just this way, then this statement of "The unfamiliar word" is entirely subjective. That means it is original research, has no place here, and the similarly named sections must be removed from all of the Nero Wolfe articles. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 20:48, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Pinky
editI read this thirty years ago and recently got to wondering: Is this the one in which Archie repeatedly sees a man (dubbed "Pinky" by Archie for something he wears) with a gold tooth, who only eats soup? (If you like, answer on my Talk page and then delete this section.) —Tamfang (talk) 06:00, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
- The little runt! Yes, this is the one — he's one of the men watching Paul Chapin. —WFinch (talk) 18:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Later reference to this book
editIn a later book, Archie quotes Ferdinand Bowin's words when he was taken from his cell to be executed by electric chair. (I think the words are, "I find the idea utterly repugnant.") If anybody knows which book it is, it might make a good addition to the page. JDZeff (talk) 19:57, 4 May 2018 (UTC)