Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I saw him fall I knew he had received five bullets. Then I emptied my revolver. The crowd had scattered. A policeman came up quietly and said: 'Is that enough?' I answered: 'Yes.' He said: 'Then give me your revolver.' I gave him the revolver, saying: 'I have killed a great assassin...
...When the policeman told me Petlura was dead I could not hide my Joy. I leaped forward and threw my arms about his neck...
...defend a woman, this character knocks a policeman down in the first scene, unwittingly killing him. He is jailed for five years, and spends the rest of the play's nine scenes fleeing his jailers and his destiny. He evades the jailers but cannot dodge himself; in the final scene he gives himself up to the pursuers to prevent a clergyman from shielding him by telling a lie. He has been at various times in the piece a murderer, a thief, a beggar, but throughout a gentleman. His finer nature traps...
Said the New Orleans States: "In Budapest a musician was so enraged by the chatter of a woman in the audience that he ran amuck and bit a policeman. But he made a great mistake. He should have chewed the ear of the offending woman. Had he done so he would have established a precedent that might still the feminine bazoo during a musical performance...
...mistake. In Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance the chorus sings: "A policeman's lot is not a happy...