Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Duchess rarely goes out in the evening, her alibis are not so good as they might be. A policeman, perspiring with embarrassment, is about to take her into custody when her intrepid kinsman, a V. C., risks a fate worse than death to prove her innocence. Author Arlen eventually saves his heroine's reputation, without materially damaging...
...loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges of France General Alexander Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia Admiral Philippe Berthelot Police Inspector Calestin Galli Policeman Felix Forestier Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen was not alone...
...night last week in Boston, Charles Roswell Donnell, a 6-ft.1-in., 220-lb. policeman, climbed into a ring to referee a wrestling bout between onetime Heavyweight Champions Ed Don George and Jim Browning. Browning won the first fall. In the second round he got a scissors hold on George. Referee Donnell tried to step between the wrestlers to save them from going through the ropes. Browning wrapped his arms around Donnell's neck and the next instant wrestlers and referee plunked down on the cement floor. Donnell landed at the bottom. Spectators untangled them, found Donnell unconscious with concussion...
...woman rested a while, until she regained strength to expel the placenta. Then without pausing to tie the umbilical cord, she dressed herself, wrapped baby and placenta in a sheet, went forth for medical help. Two blocks away she found an incredulous policeman in a patrol car. He thought she was fooling until he looked at the baby. Then it was only a matter of minutes until Amelia Toner and daughter were in the best of civilized hospital care, both getting along well...
Attendants dragged the horse outside where a policeman shot it. "Baby" darted out the runway to his cage. The crowd pressed up around the steel-barred ring, still roaring, "Shoot the lion!" After a while the spectators went back to their seats. Once more "Baby" came into the ring, this time with five other lions and Miss Marion Knowlton, trim young animal trainer. Obediently "Baby" leaped over her, lay down beside her. There were dark red splotches around his tawny jaws...