Word: patrolmen
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...grim police sergeant, four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...arrest by the New York police . . . to the rank and file of the police department he is known as "Bum." . . . He faced 22 years of prison life, including five years of an unexpired sentence in Auburn . . . clever and dangerous . . . handcuffs . . . a heavy blow from behind . . . two patrolmen . . . escape...
...twinkling of an eye. Out into the road they dashed, held up a passing automobile, forced the driver at pistol points to drive faster than the wind from the pursuing policemen. To all who attempted to stop them they leveled their pistols. Finally, the chase ended. Two patrolmen crowded the fleeing car onto the sidewalk. The patrolmen threatened to shoot. The murderers surrendered. They were Frank Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist. Their motive in killing Brennan was obscure; it was thought that it had something to do with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when...
...himself appeared surprised to find that the tout was over for when the bell rang immediately after he had been counted out he jumped to his feet. His supporters wished to take the matter up with the timer, were prevented from injuring someone by the timely arrival of special patrolmen...
...press of the crowd was so great that it required the combined efforts of the college police and a detachment of Cambridge patrolmen to keep it within the required bound. And it was only with the greatest difficulty that they succeeded in opening a passageway through the crowd for the cars of President Eliot and his following...