Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they arrived the bird had flown to the roof of a nearby undertaking establishment where he spread an iridescent tail, fan-fashion, to show his pursuers he was a peacock not a vulture. He remained there until a policeman reached the roof, then took wing, flapped his way to the Hotel Wyndham, paused until his pursuers were in roping distance, flew away once more...
Paying his first visit to the U. S., British Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips,) announced: "I want to see the obvious things in America." Driving down Manhattan's Park Avenue next day he nearly ran over a policeman with a drawn revolver, was warned to keep his distance because there might be "some shooting." Popeyed, Novelist Hilton watched more policemen closing in, heard that bandits had just robbed swank Pickslay Co.'s jewelry store of $15,000 in loot...
...Crainquebille," picture of the evening, based on the play of that name by Anatole France, emphasises the futility of human justice. Crainquebille, who pushes a vegetable cart about Paris, is arrested on a false charge of shouting at a policeman, "Mort aux vaches...
Desperately looking back to his prison days, he shouts "Mort aux vaches!" at another policeman. When the policeman pays no attention to him he decides to end his life by jumping into the Seine. Befriended at the last moment by some Paris gamins, he goes off to live with them...
...motorcycle policeman was sufficient to convoy to their hotel home Jimmy Walker and his second wife, onetime Musicomedienne Betty Compton whom he married in the South of France.* They then read 1,400 letters and telegrams of greeting, planned his future. Possibilities included the law, the theatre, the cinema, the liquor business. That night the City of New York was gently rocked by its first earthquake since...