Word: plainclothesman
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...accomplished, they staged an orderly demonstration and were promptly picked up and whirled in waiting automobiles to the city line, where they were dumped with a stern lecture. Some promptly returned and were arrested. One Workers' Defense League observer was seized and searched, and when he asked the plainclothesman to identify himself, received the reproving answer: "Why don't you want to be a gentleman?" At the subsequent hearings even reporters and photographers were searched before they were allowed to enter the courtroom...
...presented by her bosomy mother to a group of starched top-hatted socialites; and Michael Madsen's Statue of Hercules in Action, a picture of two affectionate moppets inspecting a statue group which displays a woman with disarranged clothes being muscled along by three brawny policemen and one plainclothesman...
...Duffey, stumbled, grasping at the policeman to save himself from falling. As the officer rode past, he kicked Duffey in the back of the head with his stirrup. Duffey fell and crawled under a fence. . . An officer came up and kicked Duffey several times as he was crawling. . . A plainclothesman. . . identified as Officer Gouldston then came up and joined in beating Duffey...