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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge police force is to be submitted to such nervous strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELOW THE CAMBRIDGE DEADLINE | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

...fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...most pompous and expensive wedding ever arranged in Hollywood, she was married to Rod La Rocque. The Shopworn Angel is the silly title of a sophisticated and entertaining story about a Texas rookie who is always being kidded because he has no nerve with girls. When a Manhattan policeman stops a Rolls-Royce and tells the chauffeur to take the soldier to the ferry, the Texan, in the tonneau, finds that his big feet encounter the slippers of an attractive showgirl. He brags to his friends about his date and writes for the girl's picture which he pins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Gave to 9-year-old son of a policeman a box of candy for aid in capture of bandit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New York's Whalen | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Well, Well! | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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