Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show has only to offend a New York policeman in order to causes the doors of its theatre to be padlocked, and the author, producer, owner, and cast to be subject to various fines and sentences," Mr. Hamilton continued. "Yet, some form of censorship is necessary. The cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...
...last week. How come, she demanded of Schoolteacher Mabel Dougherty, 120 pounds, that Mrs. Abe Conklin, wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been absent a lot and- "I know more'n you do!" shouted...
...November a woman died in Frank Travia's Brooklyn apartment. Fearful, he locked the door, pulled down the shades. Then he set to work to hack her body into smaller pieces. As he tore loose each limb, he wrapped the mess in a neat bundle; at night a policeman caught him throwing the packages into the East River...
Fully equal now in height to the average pedestrian, stands the Cambridge policeman whose duty it is to guide the destinies of foot and vehicular traffic in Harvard Square. For, in unparallelled magnanimity and broadness of mind, those powers which exist in the Cambridge constabulary have produced a clean white enclosure and set it up opposite the Rotunda...
...Oliver D. Ferguson of Paducah, Ky., appeared to have fought for Harvard with the most brilliance. He had kicked one policeman in the stomach, another in the chin. Not until a police club gashed his forehead could he be thrust into the patrol wagon. Policemen described him as "very strong...