Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Negro, one Pete Chester, had killed Policeman P. P, Jones of Houston last year. Chester was sentenced to death, but got a retrial this spring before District Judge C. T. Harper, who had himself just been acquitted of killing a man in a roadside row. Judge Harper's lawyer argued Chester's case before Judge Harper and the Negro got off with a sentence of four years. Because of the lightness of this sentence, the Houston police force was restive after Detective Davis' death...
...mountings are being supplied, there will be the 13-inch Boyden telescope, especially suited for planetary studies and for the newer types of spectrophotometry, inaugurated in recent years at the Harvard Observatory; an eight-inch photographic lens for work on standard magnitudes and variable stars; and a three-inch "policeman" which will steadily maintain the Harvard patrol on all of the southern sky. In addition there are two or three lenses that will be in occasional use for special investigations...
...City Hall Plaza were hundreds of idlers. Baldwin's marchers halted and one began a speech. "Fellow workers-," he said, and a policeman arrested him. Baldwin and others protested. They too were arrested...
After so wanton a scurrility the arrest of Editor Maresch was inevitable: but he gave further provocation by declaring: "The efficiency of the police of Prague would be increased if each policeman took an occasional nip of spirits...
...carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory: and not, having done all this, enjoy it immensely...