Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains a pleasant travelogue of Ireland, "Irish Luck" is a great picture. Beyond that it is terrible. Knowing how we felt about Mr. Meighan, the producers added insult to injury by using him in a double role, first as an American policeman and secondly as an Irish lord. It reminded us of the time that Buster Keaton took the part of the entire audience, the orchestra, and the cast, in one of his earlier comedies. It was just about as convincing...
...State Department and received an apology and a refund of the fine. But Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then he entered a protest to the State Department-asked an apology and his money back, asserting that it had been extorted. Mr. Kellogg wrote to Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Ritchie wrote back, saying that the State police officer...
...great lady, has once more returned to short skirts and wistfulness of the type that made her famous. After competing with Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson and the rest for the honor of being America's fiancee, she returns to the role of America's sweetheart. She plays Policeman Rooney's daughter; throws tomatoes and has her bare knees scratched. Her best loved young man is nearly killed by a bullet and saved by a blood transfusion. Miss Pickford looks as young and lovely as ever. If you used to like her, you will surely like her still...
...Manchester, N. H., lives an elderly policeman named John Smith. He was manager of the Norfolk Club in a Virginia minor league when Mathewson, a big boy, knock-kneed and ungainly, was starting with a team from Taunton. John Smith saw him pitch a game in Manchester and lose 6-5 and signed him for a season with the Virginia club...
...time in the City of Denver, while I was Vice President, a big husky policeman kept following me around until I asked him what he was doing. He said he was guarding my person. I said: 'Your labor is in vain. Nobody was ever crazy enough to shoot at a Vice President. If you will go, away and find somebody to shoot, at me, I'll go down in history as being the first Vice President who ever attracted enough attention to have even a, crank shoot...