Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hubert's parental pride offended, he took a punch at the intruder, knocked out three of his teeth. The stranger, a policeman in civilian clothes, picked himself up, arrested Hubert. A magistrate's verdict: guilty of disorderly conduct. Sentence: suspended. Upshot: Mr. Hubert went home to pose for news photographers beside his weeping...
When a misread timetable landed Labor Martyr Tom Mooney in Manhattan one and one-half hours ahead of his scheduled arrival, he thumb-twiddled until a Grand Central policeman spied him, hustled him into a private office. Still determined not to muff his entrance, Tom Mooney slipped away, hopped the right train as it chuffed to a halt, reemerged, in time to gladhand some 15,000 laborites, newsmen, photographers...
...Grafton, Mass., Policeman James ("Uncle Jim") Harding, 71, celebrated his 44th year on the force. His record: one arrest for window-smashing, 15 years ago. Policeman Harding lectured the youthful offender, paid his fine himself...
...Mary's, Ohio, at the last moment smeared himself with grease and enacted the part of the prosecuting attorney who sends Frankie to the chair. Such versatility caused Director Howard's friends at Manhattan's Stork Club, whose major-domo Jack Entratter got a policeman's part in the picture, to refer to him as "Noel Howard." Back Door to Heaven being what it is, this crack was no compliment to England's Noel Coward...
...grown by leaps & bounds until it is now an organization of 230,000, and an SS man is far more important, politically, than a soldier or a policeman. Indeed, due to the fact that Herr Himmler followed the romantic, mystical streak of Wotan-worship developed by old General Ludendorff, the SS has become the most elite and exotic body of cops the world has ever known. Defined as a "National Socialist soldierly order of Nordic men," the SS took many of their rules from the old Order of Teutonic Knights. Fundamental principles: loyalty, honor, courage. The SS cardinal virtue: blind...