Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese policeman waved them back. The tall swart man exclaimed impatiently, "I am the Brazilian Ambassador!" and strode on. Two policemen rushed up. Swiftly Ambassador R. de Lima Silva rapped one of them across the knuckles with his cane, and as the other still came on whacked him over the head. Then the crowd rushed him, his dog, his wife...
Amid shouts of "Banzai!" "Hail, Illustrious One!" "Greetings!" the Prince Regent proceeded unruffled on his way. Later Ambassador Silva explained that he thought the first policeman had said "Come, please" instead of "Comes Prince." Since the policeman's gesture made his intent clear, this explanation was considered very lame.* The Japanese Government was rumored to have entered an official protest against the "unwarranted tempestuousness" of the Ambassador...
...minutes, and strode out. Photographers were waiting for him. "Will you pose?" He hesitated, nodded. "Make it snappy now!" Reporters began to ask questions: "Have you been sworn in as Police Commissioner?" "No, I have not." "Will you be here tomorrow?" "Yes." He hurried down the stairs with a policeman chasing him. In the street the policeman caught up: "Mr. Commissioner, won't you use your Department car?" "No." He hurried to a taxi cab. "I'm waiting for another fare," said the driver. A detective whispered to him, "That's the new Police Commissioner." The driver changed his mind...
...avoid constant mistakes in his work. "Even the graduates of our best schools of journalism are untrained in the natural sciences. The typical journalist is grossly ignorant of music, architecture, painting and literature. His knowledge of esthetic principles is little above that of the average policeman. He emerges from the university blind to the best things of life, and he will blind his readers to them"-Professor Nelson Antrim Crawford, Kansas State Agricultural College...
...body in the morgue. She, Mrs. Lillian Werner Phal, legally married to Siki in 1924, bound up her head in a wet towel and told reporters about her husband. She did not dwell upon his recent carousals-that he was arrested five months ago for attempting to kill a policeman with a knife; that the U. S. Government has for some time been trying anxiously to deport him, and the French Government as anxiously refusing to take him back. Instead, she spoke with affection of his domestic qualities...