Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wits. I observed their faces carefully. One of them threatened to kill me. "For God's sake don't," I cried. "My money is in my left trouser pocket." They wrenched $25 out of my pocket and fled to the roof of the house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under...
...gentlemen in his home at No. 121 W. 79 St. When Guest Juan Jacuevas uttered an improper remark to a young lady, Host Fernandez leaped at him, seized him by the throat, grasped his nose in his strong white teeth, bit off that nose. Mr. Jacuevas called a policeman. Mr. Fernandez was arrested...
...Fair Lawn, N. J., the chow dog of a Mrs. Robert Schurer, having bitten her before, fell upon her in the kitchen when she was alone, floored her, bit and worried her until she was unconscious, fled through the house when Mr. Schurer brought a policeman, expired of bullet-wounds in the coal...
Citizens of La Paz, Bolivia, sought the polls last week for a municipal election. As each approached the ballot box his right hand was seized by a policeman who tattooed the palm with a special stamp...
...policeman's eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...