Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they might shoot themselves by 3 p. m. or be turned out. For an hour expectant crowds packed the sidewalks. As they waited listening for the four shots their bloodlust cooled. At 3 p. m. the four policemen, who still had not shot themselves, were driven off in a patrol wagon to Cabana Fortress. Meanwhile mobsters were on their wav out to the Machado estate where they butchered prize cattle, held a barbecue. Havana continued in turmoil...
...Sixty per cent confessed that they would be idle. Forty per cent of these would be searching for jobs, and the remaining 20 per cent taking life as easily as possible. Others would have had jobs ranging from assistant in a cancer research laboratory to lookout on in ice patrol boat in the north Atlantic. Eighteen per cent would be aluminum, book, and encyclopedia salesmen...
...everyone in Chicago had turned out. The lake front and the Century of Progress grounds were jammed with crowds centring in a tight mass at Navy Pier and trailing for miles along the shore. In front of the pier a square expanse of water was kept severely clear by patrol boats. Against its boundaries pressed a cluster of excursion boats, yachts, freighters, runabouts, canoes. Everywhere on shore the red, white & green of Italy fluttered overhead. Peddlers hawked pictures of Benito Mussolini, of King Victor Emanuel, of Italo Balbo...
...Kaiser. Kill the Hun. Ships, ships, ships. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." The Armistice. The boys come marching home, and the men go marching out of mines and factories suddenly idle. A Paterson police chief, fat and funny, directs his men as they throw women textile workers into a patrol wagon. "Reds" await deportation at Ellis Island. Eugene Debs comes out of jail and Woodrow Wilson sails for the Peace Conference. Henry Cabot Lodge plots destruction for the League of Nations. Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding...
...then ensured the safety of her six-month-old son by engaging six armed guards and a Great Dane. At an early morning "lineup" in Manhattan police headquarters appeared Author Andre Maurois (Ariel; Disraeli) led by Authoress Fannie Hurst. When police offered to demonstrate the efficiency of their radio patrol system by having two policemen call on Mme Maurois in her hotel room, M. Maurois cried: "Good heavens, no! To have two policemen suddenly appear in our apartment would terrify her." Miss Hurst next took M. Maurois to Harlem to see the all-Negro apartment house built by John Davison...