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Pinkerton

[ ping-ker-tuhn ]

noun

  1. Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.


Pinkerton

/ ˈpɪŋkətən /

noun

  1. PinkertonAllan18191884MUSScottishCRIME AND POLICING: private detectiveMISC: intelligence agent Allan. 1819–84, US private detective, born in Scotland. He founded the first detective agency in the US (1850) and organized an intelligence system for the Federal States of America (1861)


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An aide to Princes William and Harry, Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, was hacked 416 times from the Wapping office.

From a season spent embedded with the New York Jets to a biography of a self-mythologizing Pinkerton detective.

After the first few meet and greets, Lowther-Pinkerton got him a glass of water.

Harry's right-hand man Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton got him a glass of water.

This allowed him to deliver actual Confederate documents to Pinkerton, along with his observations.

Does not the Pinkerton janizary represent organized authority, forever crushing the toiler in the interest of the exploiters?

And then the problem that Pinkerton laid down: why the artist can do nothing else?

Mr. Pinkerton, in his Scottish Iconographia, published an engraving of this curious portrait.

Vanderveer was very brief, but to the point, in the examination of the local head of the Pinkerton Agency.

Mr. Pinkerton was of a very amiable and pious spirit, devoted to his Master's work.

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