Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trench to prevent the tithe-collector from taking away his stock. Shots are fired, mysterious figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that he goes blind. Mary thereupon regrets her previous highmindedness, offers herself to her lover, but his regard for her husband has deepened with his loss of sight, and it is his turn...
...Bronx, Policeman Harold Wilkins stopped the driver of a car for making an improper left turn, gave him a ticket, was mortified to learn a few moments later that the driver and his three companions had just robbed a bank...
...announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have played Little Eva in a presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, said the whip was merely a stage prop. "What were you trying to do," asked a wry policeman, ''kill Uncle...
...While I was going through this door I had a view of the top of the exit stairway, and I saw a policeman's head. He was sort of peeking around the edge of the partition and then ducked away...
Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis J. Cadek, a hardboiled, barrel-bellied police captain who had been 30 years on the Cleveland force. Other property and bank accounts under various...