Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burglars visited the establishment of Max Keezer in the early hours yesterday morning, and departed with clothes valued at $1600. A policeman discovered the door unlocked, and an investigation disclosed the loss. Max was summoned and arrived on the scene at-5.30 to take immediate inventory. "There were no bullets flying", was his brief commentary, "but they cleaned me out of 76 suits...
...Spartan War-mother and a slacking son; the Shuberts?"mere striplings, dark-haired, dark-eyed and determined; a face three-quarters shot away; Belgians who refused to shoot at the Germans; ten pairs of decomposing German ears; "Who will give a thousand dollars to see me dance with the policeman?" "Prohibition is no longer on experiment. It has been tried out with the dire result that it has derailed the morale of America...
...event with an old football injury, the Crimson will depend on H. T. Dunker '24 and Earl Evans '24 to wrest honors from the other strong entries. They will meet the greatest opposition in Ralph Hills, Princeton football guard, and Olympic shot-put prospect, and Orville Wanzer, powerful policeman from the New York...
...Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted." A "big crowd" marched to his theatre. There a policeman smilingly agreed to submit to Langster's eye. Having hypnotized him, the professor handed the policeman a stick, said: "This is a revolver. Shoot!" In a daze the policeman threw away the stick, seized his own revolver, shot three of the audience. He then leaped from the stage, attacked the spectators, seized several, herded them together, told them they were under arrest, drove them before him to the police station...
Prof. Langster and the policeman were held...