Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in almost as many public movements as her husband; to reveal Mrs. Roosevelt, either as publicity-glutton or genuine, warm-hearted woman, in hundreds of little acts of graciousness and trouble-taking- visiting a sick White House correspondent at the hospital, taking for an automobile ride a state policeman hurt on duty, going to see her son's divorced wife and their baby (to whom she did not take a present because, "I don't believe in giving presents to babies who already have everything they want...
...Policeman Mulrooney's "model" code: Bars. Wine and hard liquor may be served only at tables in restaurants. Since last April, beer has been served at bars in restaurants (reason: so that poor men need not tip waiters) and still may be. But if acustomer wants another kind of drink he must sit down. He does not have to order food, but the restaurant, hotel or club has to satisfy the liquor board that its primary business is not selling drinks...
...solid, in garb as unprepossessing as he can find. Well aware that when he removes the bindings from his face or the trousers from his legs, there will be nothing there, he takes pleasure in frightening the host of a village inn by doing so. Presently he kills a policeman and then, intoxicated by the certainty that he can commit crimes with no possibility of being detected, he wrecks a train, kills another young doctor whom he has forced to be his partner, plans to make himself a world dictator-for by using his drug in wholesale quantities...
...hurl himself at his opponent feet first as is his custom, Man Mountain Dean gave a miserable account of himself. After three minutes Savoldi butted his adversary head-first but below the belt, lost the bout on a foul. Carried out of the ring by three ushers and a policeman, while the crowd gave loud hoots, Man Mountain Dean an nounced his plans: another month of training v. Mrs. Dean, a return match against Jumping Joe Savoldi...
...radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate; in a midtown Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique...