We have no idea if "gumshoe" is a gender-neutral word but we're keeping it that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Andy Serwer, part reporter, part gumshoe, is on the case. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2006] Reference
"You've been a gumshoe too long," suggested the black man. From Wordnik.com. [Tek Net]
When we go, I'll keep him talking while you gumshoe out. '. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
A dogged gumshoe, Mr. Stewart almost never got into computers. From Wordnik.com. [Web Scammer Targets] Reference
The dentist's alibi was "rock solid," said a frustrated gumshoe. From Wordnik.com. [Descent Into Evil] Reference
In agency jargon, each report filed by a gumshoe is called a "302.". From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Justice] Reference
ORTH: So in the end they reverted to the old gumshoe thing of a stakeout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2009] Reference
ORTH: So in the end, they reverted to the old gumshoe thing of a stakeout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009] Reference
Wright hired a San Francisco gumshoe to unearth dirt on Flowers and others. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Lies And The President] Reference
"They're embarrassed when they get caught," says Texas gumshoe Clyde Wilson. From Wordnik.com. [Video Vigilantes] Reference
O ` NEILL: Well, that ` s the sort of gumshoe work that ` s taking place today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2008] Reference
It actually highlighted the significance and the importance of good gumshoe work. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2007] Reference
Naturally, the gumshoe aspect left a good number of reviewers in an indignant mood. From Wordnik.com. [Curt and Uncourtly, Broomfield Slashes and Burns Grunge] Reference
And I thought they would put people out on the street and get gumshoe-type information. From Wordnik.com. [Former Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review of World Trade Center Investigation] Reference
"Tell me, lads, are you intending to go into the private gumshoe business on your own?". From Wordnik.com. [Tek Net]
REVIEW SUMMARY: Outstanding sci-fi gumshoe tale set in a future I know I'd love to be a part of. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Kiln People by David Brin] Reference
In theory this scares the pants off of your most hardened gumshoe and really you can't blame them. From Wordnik.com. [Lon S. Cohen: To Fully Embrace Social Media, Cops Must Open The Thin Blue Line] Reference
Pickering made no attempt to avoid this, and the gumshoe easily learned that he lived at 19 Gramercy Park. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
All the gumshoe reporters, "sticking up for the little guy" newspaper cliches apply: That was the Sun-Times. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Sinker: Slipping Backwards: The Loss of Two Journalists of Color at the Chicago Sun-Times Reflects the Growing Whitewashing of the News] Reference
Natalie said, "I should've realized that a gumshoe of your proven abilities would've found out about even --". From Wordnik.com. [Tek Net]
That this was more post-modern performance than gumshoe journalism is something that all involved acknowledge. From Wordnik.com. [YouTube, the Right-o-Sphere, and the Anatomy of an ACORN Take Down] Reference
In 2008, at the age of 52, Kaufman submitted Drink the Tea, a D.C. gumshoe novel he'd been working on for two years. From Wordnik.com. [Keith Thomson: The "American Idol" of Publishing] Reference
The new team used old-fashioned gumshoe work to retrace the early steps of a probe that confounded investigators for years. From Wordnik.com. [Veteran Investigators Played] Reference
Washington has been waiting for this column from my Chicago Sun-Times colleague, known for his gumshoe reporting, for years. From Wordnik.com. [Lynn Sweet: Novak's "Tell-Almost"] Reference
He's a veteran reporter of the old gumshoe school, with a knack for digging up the kind of U.N. internal documents that the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Paging Ambassador Susan Rice] Reference
What they've confided isn't yet known, but the Justice Department has reassigned more than 50 prosecutors to gumshoe the evidence. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: The scandal will grow] Reference
What they\'ve confided isn\'t yet known, but the Justice Department has reassigned more than 50 prosecutors to gumshoe the evidence. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: The scandal will grow] Reference
"If I knew what it means, I wouldn't have to hire a Mickey Mouse, no-handicapping gumshoe for three hundred bucks a day, now would I?". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
You find what you believe is a good company, do the gumshoe work to understand the business and vet the financials, and then you invest. From Wordnik.com. [Five Stock Picks for Your Recovering Portfolio] Reference
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