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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when all hands are tops in their lines and happy with what they are doing. Plot is forgotten, the Christmas tree is spangled with dialog as amiably frivolous as artificial snow and lighted up with rows of handsome specialties, three of which stand out: Reginald Gardiner as a park policeman leading an invisible orchestra; Barnett Parker as a sissy floorwalker demonstrating a model home; a ballroom dance number by Georges & Jama. Best songs: Rap, Tap On Wood by Powell, Easy to Love by Powell & Stewart, I've Got You Under My Skin by Virginia Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...that in war I can't use my fists." Spain's No. 1 football forward, Ricardo Zamora, was throwing hand grenades last week and various bull fighters were engaged en both sides at Madrid. "The Great Belmonte" had stopped fighting bulls to become a rural policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 125 Days | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Over-alert social critics are apt to notice leftist leanings in the play, such as a Communist's being sent to death by mob hysteria, and a policeman's bullying the poor. These suggestions, if not completely illusory, are at best irrelevant and insignificant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

Overhearing a policeman tell a woman spectator that he did not know where the fire box was. Giles rushed off in search while Meyers plungers into the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women, Children Rescued in Blaze | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Ordinary garden people don't live here, y'know," declared a policeman indicating No. 16. "This is Crown property, this is! Move along there, move along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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