Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different is the situation in Boston. Years ago the heavy losses sustained by the Boston Elevated Railway necessitated the ten-cent fare; and the police arrest crooks in every part of the city. At least one policeman guards the Square every night; and there are inspectors at every subway entrance. One opportunity for ingenuity still remains; there are no slug detectors on the pay telephones; and some times one only needs to kick them...
...policeman, quietly doing his job in a somewhat explosive community, is not likely to be much appreciated by the in habitants. In the same way Uncle Sam trying to maintain law and order in similar districts of the Western Hemisphere, and looking after the property and interests of the foreign nations represented there comes in for considerable abuse at the hands of the trouble makers...
...Beta Kappas, according to a communication to a New York paper, have a new worry. A member of this well known organization, while driving in New York City with his brother, an Elk, was hauled up short for speeding. The policeman, spotting with satisfaction at present Key, launched himself upon a situperous lecture concerning college "Smart Alecs" who cared for no one's life but their own, and was on the point of handing out a summons when the Elk button on the second chap caught his eye. To the joy and amazement, of the motorists the atmosphere changed...
...triumph for his Honor all round! The Wayfarers Lodge potentate did not recognize him, gave him the "cold eye," indeed, when he essayed conversation; nor did a policeman on duty at City Hall know him in the morning. As one result of the Mayor's adventure, the Lodge is to have more "showers" and "better accommodations for the "down-and-outers." The Peters way of roughing it facilitates the winning of appropriations. There is no refusing a man who shares the lot of the jobless and the homeless. A virile chap, the Harvard-slum Mayor. New York Times
...feel a bit inclined to criticise your country anyhow. It isn't done, you know. I am a visitor, a guest. But I certainly can say that I would object to my own state dictating my diet. I really think it is rather a bad thing for a policeman to tell anyone what dinner he should have. Then, for the same reason, I do not want to talk about the 'Irish Question', because I would be criticising my own country...