Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometime after one midnight last week Policeman Vernon Kelly paced his accustomed rounds on the quiet streets of Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 12,000). At George Demetree's beer parlor he found the door suspiciously unlocked. Drawing his revolver and pushing inside, he flicked his flashlight, spotted a skinny, dark-brown Negro behind the counter, a taller yellow Negro nearby...
...Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. In 1927, a grocer accused of selling liquor complained that a young bully posing as a policeman had walked in and taken $50, promising to have the accusation quashed. Bull Moore was tried for this offense. He got a six-month sentence which the judge suspended...
...Montreal, gunmen robbed Canada Bread Co. of $2,700, sped away in an automobile. When a motorcycle policeman started after them, the panicky gunmen threw a bag containing $2,300 of the money into a lane, outdistanced the motorcycle, vanished. The policeman only wanted to give them a ticket for driving through a "stop" sign...
...like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower...
...month after dissolving his own Stock Exchange firm to become a limited partner of Shields & Co.* Allen Ledyard Lindley, 56, last week resigned as chairman of the Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct. Reason: he had to work five hours a day as "Wall Street's policeman," wanted more time of his own. Vice chairman Howland S. Davis took over...