Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. The song of the taxi driver stopped by a policeman who tells that worthy what to do "If you see my aunt!" has already circled the globe, but without its original connotation...
Woods Raps. Scarcely had the delegates assembled-many of them slant-eyed poppy-landers - when hard-fisted Colonel Arthur Woods* hurled a policeman's challenge: "There may be too much diplomacy and too little roughshod direct police action in the fight against narcotic outlaws. . . . To crush the international narcotic traffic we must have international police action...
Diplomatic Contribution. Having dozed or pondered while the foreign-devil-policeman spoke, slant-eyed delegates awoke to attention when Dr. Chao-Hsin Chu, Chinese Minister to Italy, made his contribution to the proceedings: "You insult my government and I am not afraid to insult yours...
Friends of his in Kansas got word that he had reached Manhattan. Then they read how an individual in that city had held up a restaurant with a dummy pistol last week, how he had fled through a theatre crowd, how a policeman had thrown his night stick, brought the fellow down. It was Hodges. He said...
Naturally the Italian people have reason for fearing any and all attacks upon the Roman nose. If to be a Fascist one must be a true Roman, that Bergeracian appendage is essential. Premier and policeman, both must guard the nasal bridge, valiant as Horatius, and twice as undemocratic. For democracy, if it does not predicate complete denasalization, at least suggests a diminution of nasal swank. The affair, indeed, is after all, quite conversational...