Word: bluecoated
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...color is any indication, Yale had twelve men on the field most of the time since there was a lone Cambridge bluecoat on duty behind the end zone at the east end of the Stadium throughout the game...
...Morrissey's 14 Gym staff men, Captain Gill's special detail of campus ogpus, five New Haven gumshoes, 21 flatfeet, gendarmes, a bluecoat patrol, additional constables, disguised in tuxedos and veterans of the Hindenburg Line (as the Yale News warned me) were stationed at my doors to keep crashers out. They began to get bored so we had another drink. A couple of mugs came in in the meanwhile, but if they hadn't had tickets they would have told us. Then they took some pictures of the cops in tuxes and asked where their partners were. They were from...
...what it is, just as the American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police and of the sensational press. He grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although he is Canadian-born, of Scotch descent). He knows sensational newspapers because for 30 years they have been his opposition (in the form of Hearst's Times, Macfadden's defunct Daily). At 17 "Bing" Bingay started...
Upstairs a policeman enters (Edward J. McNamara). He has been sent by the indignant fiance, but is speedily pacified at the mention of liquors. Says the girl: "Why, policemen never drink, do they?" Says the bluecoat: "It just seems like never...
...Edward Holton James, nephew of the late famed Philosopher William James and Novelist Henry James, attended a Sacco & Vanzetti mass meeting on the Boston Common. Smartly dressed, neatly barbered, looking more like a distinguished professor emeritus than a boisterous radical nephew, James shouted: "Down with the police!*, assaulted a bluecoat, was promptly arrested. Refusing to plead the charges against him he told the court that he would not stand up "before murderers whether they are judges, police officers or governors." He was fined $75. After being graduated from Harvard in 1896 Mr. James practiced law in Seattle, grew discontented, went...