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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King on his Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed it to the cameraman, saying with a grin, "Here, take your camera back." Trunks belonging to His Majesty were labeled inconspicuously with his incognito "Duke of Lancaster" but great capitals fully six inches high proclaimed the trunks of MRS. ERNEST SIMPSON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Happy King | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing to say. "Man, he's there!" whispered an admiring spectator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Party | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Last year Jew Baiter True patented under "Amusement Devices and Games," a policeman's club (Patent No. 2,026,077). Referred to by its inventor as a "Kike Killer," No. 2,026,077 is a short, stream lined hardwood truncheon, with finger grip and leather lanyard. Two "Kike Killers" were handy on the True desk during the interview, the New Masses reported. Mrs. True, the New Masses interviewer was told, carried a less hefty bludgeon called a "Kike Killer, lady's size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Jew Shoot | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...tattling nurse produced by Miss Astor named four women who at various times after the divorce had apparently spent the night with Dr. Thorpe. One of these, a blonde onetime showgirl named Norma Taylor*, was also recalled by a Los Angeles policeman. Dr. Thorpe had summoned him in after Miss Taylor, intoxicated, had invaded his dining room when he was eating with his daughter, brandished a candlestick, chased him upstairs, cornered him in a bathroom, plunged a fork into his thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thorpe v. Astor | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...Chicago, Tommy Cushman, 4, marched into a tavern, declared he was lost, had the bartender notify the police, waited until Policeman Thomas Mahoney drove by and took him home in the patrol wagon. Chuckled Policeman Mahoney: "He's a smart boy. Tommy's been after me for a week for a ride in the wagon, but I couldn't do it on account of regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Snake | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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