Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George's war career. At a political meeting in one of Great Britain's industrial cities, Lloyd George and his policies were resented by an infuriated mob of workmen, and the expresser was forced to leave the building by a rear door in the disguise of a policeman. Shortly thereafter, the wisdom of Lloyd George's policies was proved, and the same workmen returned him to power with an overwhelming majority. Thus democracy, which seemed to be a failure at the political meeting, ultimately was a public good...
...Administration?" At last we are a part of the diplomatic game of Europe. We become entangled in this struggle of secret purposes "?and his own platform ?"The United States, despite the blandishments of European statesmen or the mawkish appeals of our own, will be neither policeman nor collector abroad...
...positively identified by the students as their assailants. They are believed by the police to be part of a gang of bandits that are responsible for many recent daring robberies in this vicinity. Three others are now in custody and are being held for the murder of a policeman Sunday in Hyde Park, and also for holding up the Mt. Auburn Garage. They were traced because the revolver, which had belonged to the policeman, was found in their possession. For a while they were thought to be connected with the Oxford Street robbery but with the capture of the three...
...Eternal Struggle. Oldsters will recall the day when Earle Williams was one of the major idols of the cinema, Earle rather dropped from prominence. Here, then, is he back again. Playing the Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman in scarlet coat and honor of pure white, he makes what is dubiously known among movie fans as a "romantic figure." Royal Northwesterners have by this time become just a trifle stereotyped. The first sentence in the Scenario Writer's Primer reads: " The Northwest Mounted Policeman always gets...
...monkey only cost $35, the owners hurried to the Cambridge police station to protest against the illegal rent. A policeman accompanied the plaintiffs to the boarding house and after examining the evidence fixed the damages at $10. Reluctantly she announced that they could phone later and she would consult her husband, but on Sunday Central said that the number had been disconnected. Yesterday, however, Mrs. Buralk telephoned the owners and admitted that she will have to give in. The house was in a mess and Kinney had devoured "The Book of Knowledge...