Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ominous, the crowd of some 3,000 persons that milled around at Highland and Dayton Avenues on the following afternoon paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching from the sidewalk. There was snow in the gutters. Small boys had a fine time pelting motorcycle policeman. Much merry horseplay, too, of holding back light cars that were trying to get up the grade to the Botany plant. Officers tried to clear the traffic. They drove their sputtering motorcycles round and round. Women jeered, dingy men guffawed. ... It was a signal the patrolmen had been waiting for. They...
Kicked and beaten, another, down on all fours, reaching out his hand to pick up the valuable lens of his shattered machine. A policeman smashed the reaching hand with a neat blow . . . kicked the lens far away...
...called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which is a good enough joke in itself to show the irresponsible tendencies of the whole production. Along towards the end, however, just when we had hopes of witnessing a college between the crook waltress and the more crooked butler, the picture suddenly went frightfully mushy. Everybody developed a conscience, forsook...
Later George P. Kelley, local policeman, confessed to abducting the sedium presidentis...
...Basil's distinguished counsel, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K. C. B., then arose and demanded that the bobby who had accused his client be ejected from the room "because he is smirking and making grimaces." The Court ordered the now straight-faced policeman to withdraw...