Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts, a policeman of a city is a public officer holding his office as a trust from the State, and not as a matter of contract between himself and the city. Police appointments are referred to cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government...
...Steeplechase Course. "Hey," yelled a bobby. "Hey, you there! Get out of that! Get back out of that! You can't go there!" The Baron was taken aback, asked Joseph E. Widener: "Must I get out?" "I think they'll let you stay here," Mr. Widener returned. The policeman was informed of the stranger's identity and withdrew, muttering apologies...
...Berlin policeman gets 110 marks a month?about $25. He pays from 16 to 24 marks ($3.50 to $4.50) for the cheapest cotton shirt? 98 cents in any American department store, and other things in proportion. You can imagine how they live! And they are typical...
...contributed heavily to his club's point total by winning the Association singles sculling event and finishing second in the senior quarter-mile clash. He had also become National single-scull champion, for there was none to meet him in the challenge event.* Last year, at Baltimore, a Buffalo policeman, Officer Edward McGuire, and a Lake Ontario fisherman, Hilton Belyea, were on hand to challenge Paul V. Costello, 1922 champion. The policeman, a burly man, won. This year he stayed on his beat in Buffalo...
...Next day Mr. Christo, who did not know or admit the possibility of psychic phenomena, resolved to call in the aid of a policeman. ... An officer and two constables were placed at his disposal. . . . After searching and inspecting every corner of the house, the lights were extinguished. Knocks on the front door were immediately heard downstairs. 'Do you hear that?' said Mr. Christo to the constables. 'Perfectly,' they said...