Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little ex-tailor who had been on home relief for three years, rushed into a Manhattan relief depot, screamed: "I want you should buy my wife a dress. Other women get Easter dresses. My wife she wants one. The city should buy her a dress." Thrown out by a policeman, he returned after ten minutes, shrieking: "Down with everything! Home relief, phooie!" Six policemen were summoned to carry him to jail...
...Mounted Policeman Olaf Wieghorst showed a picture of his favorite horse, and Poet e. e. cummings exhibited a blue moonlight scene. The Rev. J. Cole Mc-Kim, missionary and jujitsu expert, offered a startling canvas called Surprise Harakiri. It showed an impetuous Japanese gentleman suddenly ripping his stomach open with a dagger before the eyes of his assembled guests...
...highly moral. But he had little money and he did not know the customs of the country. He was having a fine time, however, and thought everyone was as nice as could be, until one fine day a strapping girl persuaded him to go swimming with nothing on. A policeman ran him in, the girl's brother got a gang together and beat him up. Disillusion dawning, Uan went away from there. On a bus to Salt Lake City a stranger gypped him out of his remaining cash. Undaunted, Uan turned hobo. In adversity he discovered a few good...
...more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft Riots," featured by the burning of a Negro orphanage at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue, and the sacking of an early Negro quarter (now Chinatown). In 1900 a policeman allegedly arresting a Negro woman for soliciting started another race riot...
...What, going home and leaving your shopwindow lights on, Weber?", a friendly policeman last week admonished a petty Berlin dealer in women's wear. "You know Goring's orders...