Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unable to pay a judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain...
Died. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (retired), 85, of Baltimore, Civil War veteran, father of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commander of the Yangtze patrol of the U. S. Asiatic fleet; in Baltimore...
Since Nogales is a twin city, partly in Mexico and partly in Arizona, General Manuel Aguirre of the Nogales, Sonora, revolutionaries was soon called upon by Col Arthur M. Shipp, commander of the Nogales, Ariz., 25th U. S,. Infantry border patrol. Later, Col. Shipp said...
...effect that a number of the most robust and courageous policemen are to be organized as a "bean blower squad." Whether this unit will take up an in trenched position that will command the Gibson Terrace sector, or whether it will depend on speed and mobility for defense, and patrol the region, is as yet a matter of conjecture. One thing, however, is certain; the cats of Cambridge are about to become as famous for their elusiveness as the cats of Cheshire for their grins...
...aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary incendiaries had laid fiery waste to Danielstown...