Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impenitent Beckett. One policeman was sufficient to escort Gandhite Brockway and Mace-Snatcher Beckett last week "from the Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...
Killed: 15 civilians, one policeman...
...Manhattan, when Fred Roth put three nickels in succession into a pay-station telephone and got no response, Fred Roth ran amok, ripped out the door of the booth, punched a policeman's nose, landed in jail...
Commissioner Alcock, like New York City's new Commissioner Mulrooney, is an oldtime, silent, line policeman. His reply to the Mayor's instruction was this : "There'll be no dillydallying by the Police Department. . . . There has been too much talk. I want results. . . . We need 12,000 men. We have about 5,000. . . . People want uniformed policemen on the streets. Uniformed men will prevent crime. . . . It is easier to prevent than solve...
...wire-haired terrier, "Rowdy," whom she adores. She makes up when she goes to bed with the same care that she does for the stage. She plays golf very seriously, loves to drive a car and drive it fast. In Ravinia not long ago a motorcycle policeman stopped her, asked her why, she was speeding. "Ah," she answered, "It is not me. It is this car and it gives me oh! so much emotion." The officer made no arrest. He, too, was captivated by the charm of the modern civilized Lucrezia Borgia...