Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carefreeness with much potent liquid and was speeding merrily, if not somewhat like a May Pole dance along a suburban turnpike. Unluckily an innocent automobile blocked his way; he did not hit it hard, but hard enough to excite the driver, arouse hot words, and attract a state policeman who was parked nearby...
...sooner did the officer place a hand on his shoulder than the drink in our hero came up for the fourth time. The policeman, as a matter of routine, asked him if he had been drinking. "No," he said, "I always get sick when I see an officer...
...Morristown, N. J., Mrs. Walter E. Wilke drove her car into a tree. She backed off, drove on. A policeman noticed the car weaving, leaped on the running board, pulled the emergency brake, hospitalized Mrs. Wilke who complained of a pain in her neck. Shortly, Mrs. Wilke died of her broken neck...
...time a policeman loomed up, and gazed at us attentively while we were about to frame our question, asking for direction to one of the smaller but gayer places for sustenance, but before we could put all that into words, the policeman said, not at all unkindly, but with a definite note of reproof, "Straight ahead and turn left at the next traffic light for Harvard Square...
...Detroit, a policeman halted a car that had been careening down the street, arrested bloody Ben Ryser and irate wife. Said Mr. Ryser in court: "I tried to get her to leave a beer garden. I had to coax her away with a bottle of whiskey. She fell asleep in the car, but woke up near home and asked for a drink. ... I was trying to get home but I was relieved when the police came alongside. She had picked up a piece of glass and was stabbing at me with...