Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rivera. Someone threatened to "take him down in the basement and beat the hell out of him." Lino began frantically biting his captors' hands. A salesgirl fainted. Some 500 Negro customers, thrown into a panic by the commotion, began upsetting counters of goods, yelling, breaking things. An Irish policeman went in, saw he could not quell the hysterical confusion singlehanded, sent for emergency reserves. It was almost twilight before the police had driven the disturbers from the debris-strewn store...
...bring a new style of play into this stronghold of toryism and reaction, nor is it easy to inspire a team from which the spark has been extinguished by years of consecutive defeat. Then too, factional prejudice arose on the squad, and the role of peace-maker, arbiter, and policeman was added to Wes' many troubles...
...Murray Just before the meal last night. There was much tittering and giggling and wondering what the trouble could be. Some claimed Miss Murray was attempting to explain the four-five no trump bid in the reaching of grand slams. Others had it that the new and amorous looking policeman on a local beat was causing considerable upheaval among the hearts of the waiting lasses...
...Wall Street, month ago, a frayed old man wearing a sandwich sign picked a wallet out of the snow. The wallet contained $42,000 in negotiable securities, which 67-year-old Frank Grigoris turned over to a policeman. Overnight Frank Grigoris tasted sudden fame, saw his picture in all the newspapers, collected a reward ($100), got a new job, as messenger boy ($70 a month) at Belden & Co., the brokers who owned the wallet...
...about the ability of the unemployed, the San Francisco dock strikers, etc. to laugh, is unduly pessimistic. I walked across the Embarcadero in San Francisco last July, while the tear gas guns were popping, and at least 1,250 striking longshoremen were laughing their sides off, apparently because a policeman had fallen off his horse and had shot himself with his own tear...