Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scarsdale, N. Y., Policeman Vincent Jural gave chase to a speeding sedan, which presently stopped...
...weight the story with suspense, illuminate it with sudden flashes of climax that leave the secret darker than before. Her characters are remarkably human for people in the pages of a detective story: they are frail, inconsistent, humorous, faulty. The detective is no Sherlock Holmes but a hard-working policeman who has to satisfy the district attorney, then out of sympathy and professional pride helps Miss Bell demolish the case he has made. But there is a murderer. If it were not for Author Rinehart, the villain might never have been discovered...
...Vienna, Fritz Mimmler was collared by a policeman as he tried to throw himself out of a window. He explained that after he had five times tried to insert it in his shirt, his collar button had fallen on the floor and rolled out of sight...
...recpolman," Mr. Gandhi is driving at something which can best be illustrated by stating an extreme case. A naked Indian steps up to an English policeman and says: "Either get out of my country or kill me." The policeman kills him. Another Indian steps up and the process is repeated, another and another and another and another and another. After several Indians, the English policeman perhaps suddenly realizes that he is a murderer, remembers the Divine command ''Thou shalt not kill!" He throws away his pistol, bursts into sobs of penitence, scuttles out of India. Or perhaps he goes...
...with unerring accuracy and can never remember in what town the significant episodes of his life occurred. Troubled by rumors that his girl is living loosely, he remarks: "I been layin' awake for weeks hopin' she'd say something in her sleep." During the evening a policeman is riddled with a machine gun at the wagon's door, a pickpocket is apprehended and has his wrist deliberately broken by his captors, and the dope-peddling Italian proprietor of the wagon is shot down by the wife of an associate whose life he had threatened...