Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additional men arrived, some 20 rebels appeared on the sky line of the railroad fill and the patrol opened fire. The rebels were routed, but Private First Class (no buck private as you put it) John Phinnizee was shot through the chest...
...across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice on the Fish boat. Capt. Larsen hove to. From the patrol boat to the Restless stepped a U. S. agent (No. 979). He had a gun. Others...
...patrol wagon growled up West 18th Street, Manhattan, last week and stopped back of St. Francis Xavier's parochial school. Pupils crowded to the windows and watched patrolmen enter the semi-basement of No. 46, a brownstone house. Soon appeared a dozen agitated women. Some carried infants. Then six more women with strained, angry faces walked out of the door. Policemen with wastepaper baskets full of surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves...
While freight cars of Mexican corpses lay in the heat and dust of La Reforma, the name of the stalwart Negro buck private John Finezee appeared on the front page of all U. S. papers. Private Finezee was a member of a cavalry patrol of the famed 10th U. S. Cavalry, which discovered a hidden cache of hand grenades that the rebels were attempting to smuggle across the border into Mexico. The rebels appearing a few minutes later to claim their bombs, a brush ensued, in the course of which Private Finezee received a bullet in the chest. Painfully...
...tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that he was still fighting, and that his "spiritual filibuster" had turned into a "war." State troopers were called upon to patrol Malvern's streets when the embattled Methodist partisans became violent. A fervent Sproulite prayed for the devil to "give those heretics, those nonbelievers, their just dues...