Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film now in the making, was thrown from a castle window into a moat. His hands caught in his flowing sleeves, he could not swim, he struggled, he was sinking. Instantly I threw him my scarf, but he could not grasp it. He was saved by a brave policeman...
Ernest du Pont, gunpowder manufacturer : " Motoring in the dead of night on the Baltimore Pike near Media, Pa., I was suddenly confronted by a man in the road flourishing a pistol. He was dressed as a State policeman, but, suspecting treachery, I put on speed. The man jumped aside, entered a waiting car with his accomplice and gave me hot chase. They fired at me, hitting my tonneau twice. They caught up and tried to crowd me off the road. When I slowed down one bandit boarded my car, gun in hand. I flung him from the running board...
...blind man tried the old violin and liked its tone. He traded the new fiddle for the old. The other day in Baltimore this same Henry Campbell haled William Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside was the label-" Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonensis, faciebat anno...
...subaltern of the Guards struck a policeman with the flat of his sword because he failed to salute the King's colors, which were carried past him oy the Guards' Regiment...
Vanity Fair. Mabel Ballin plays " Becky Sharp " with all the vapid fascination of a nurse girl enlisting a park policeman for the evening. Accordingly Goldwyn's eight reel production of Vanity Fair is rather gruesome. One can only hope that Thackeray is sufficiently diverted by his celestial activities to omit a mundane interlude for inspection of the ruin of his novel in the motion picture galleries...