Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among things omitted from a policeman's handbook are: Instructions for appeasing a terrified Negro who is sprinting down the street with his clothes on fire. Lacking this data, Officer Rhodes of Manhattan did the next best thing: tackled 23-year-old Negro Edward Burnett, extinguished the flames with his own uniform overcoat. Negro Burnett, taken to the Harlem Hospital in a critical condition, said that he had been sleeping quietly on a doorstep until another Negro poured a pail of kerosene...
...sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
Fortunately-at least for such poor-proud folk-the French concept of a policeman's duty is paternal. It was so interpreted, last week, by M. Jean Chiappe, the Prefect of Police of Paris. With firm wisdom M. le Préfet ordered his gendarnes to take into custody every vagrant. Soon, in warm Paris jails, the needy were served hot soups and stews which they could accept without loss of honor. When the weather moderated they were released...
...century and a half ago, the merchants who sat in the Tontine Coffee House from whose windows they could see the harbor and their ships. Anyone who saw him walking down Broad Street would realize immediately that such dignity and serene confidence could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe, shrewd, plain and kindly, it was a face easily recognized...
...Leon Daudet, editor of the hysterically Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise was recently released from prison (TIME, July 4) by a faked telephone order supposed to have come from a member of the august "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincaré. Since that merry escapade every policeman in France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"-but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience at the Salle Builler. Soon police swarmed 'round this...