Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, spurred to clean-up pitch by Mayor LaGuardia's zealous reform administration, police corralled scores of petty gamblers, slot machine & punchboard operators. Last week at Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better...
...large car with a negro chauffeur sped a man and woman from California into Arizona. When it failed to stop at the border inspection station near Toprock, an irate motorcycle policeman chased it a mile down the road, waved it to the side of the road. He looked at the two passengers. A sheepish grin came over his face. He waved them on. At Holbrook, Ariz., stopping for the night, they registered as Robert Brown and Mary Jones, took rooms 12 & 17. Next morning as they paid their bill, Hotel Proprietor Joe Gerwitz looked at the woman in dark glasses...
...twelve hours-a habit his childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy humorist, he likes to tell stories on his feet. Once he leaned out of his car in Manhattan and startled a policeman by enquiring in a soft drawl: "Officer, what kind of shoes do you wear? I have lots of trouble with my feet and just won dered how you manage to stand on yours all day long." The scene of the best Jones foot story is laid in Buckingham Palace. Colonel...
...sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck...
...royal robes became unhooked in the back. De Soto put on a marionet shew, depicting the history of transportation since the birth of Hernando De Soto, Spanish explorer. Hudson's Terraplane offered spectators playlets including one involving an ingenue, her weary mother, a Terraplane salesman and a policeman with the loudest voice at the Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted the "Queen of a Century of Progress," who would on request weigh your signature. A couple in evening dress against a backdrop of swank estates...