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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, a policeman on his rounds found one Ralph Volpe, 2, half-naked in a puddle, playing with sticks. The hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Mildred Cooper, nurse, was pursued by a man, fell down. When a policeman bent over to help her up, she bit his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...fence being lowered to the street. On a stool in the studio was found page 26 of the Nov. 1 issue of Life, pinned down with a meat knife. The page contained a sketch showing a burglar, while his colleague comes down their ladder with swag, whispering to a policeman: "Shhh. We want this to be a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fence and Offense | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...athletic, with a greying red beard, a monkish bald spot, he likes modern French painting less than modern Mexican painting. When Mexican Diego Rivera's paintings (TIME, May 6) were first hung, seven people were shot. Says Robinson: "I'd be glad if someone stepped on a policeman's toe when I show mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...National Horse Show is held in Madison Square Garden, a bowlegged groom is procured from somewhere, dressed in a red coat, and stationed with the top-hatted judges in the middle of the tanbark. Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel." Thus it has been for many years. Thus it was last week, in spite of all nebulous rumors that new blood and new money have sullied the Horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Horse Show | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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