Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the bathwomen speak no English and are usually, large, muscular, and determined to earn their rightful tip, most of them dealt with bashful delegates in the manner of a large policeman upholding the majesty of law and custom...
...Robinson, recently, married to a Manhattan businessman, was en route to Mexico City from the U. S. The President stood for a long time beside the bier with three of his sons. His son, Rodolfo, is still suffering from the wound which he received when shot at by a policeman who bore him a grudge (TIME...
...policeman stared at a heavy padlock thrust through the nostrils of a grilled iron gate. At the sealed placard "CLOSED FOR VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT" he gazed with an expression of regret. Shaking his head, he muttered, "They hadn't ought to have done...
James Joseph Tunney, champion fisticuffer, reading the newspapers last week, came upon a great mockery. A Tunney, his second cousin William, had been beaten insensible in a fair Manhattan fist fight. William Tunney had squared off at Policeman Paul Smith; Officer Smith had hit William, once...
Thoroughgoing distorters, they quoted from Signer Mussolini: "The policeman is more important than the professor"; whereas he actually said: "Gentlemen, it is time to say that the police must be not only respected, but honored [applause]. Gentlemen, it is time to say that man, before feeling the need of culture, felt the need for orderliness. It can be said that the policeman preceded the professor in history [laughter], because, if there are not hands armed with handcuffs, laws become dead letters...