Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth she sent for two vans. Into the first, workmen loaded her collection of paintings. When they began to load heavy furniture into the second van, the three detectives suddenly popped out of the basement, stopped the loading. One detective brought a policeman. Coolly Gladys of Marlborough appeared, told the movers to resume work. The policeman scratched his head. The detectives sent for a lawyer. The Duchess sent for hers. After a long conference between Duchess, lawyers, detectives and policeman, the vans drove off. Gladys of Marlborough walked out of her house, down the street to the Carlton Hotel...
...Chicago police rounded up Roger Touhy and three members of the "Terrible Touhy" gang as suspects in the kidnapping of John Factor. The gang had been arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. for smashing into a telephone pole. Having paid a $22 fine they were about to drive on when a policeman found in their car seven pistols, a rifle, a golf bag full of ammunition, a roll of adhesive tape and 20 ft. of gauze-regular kidnapping equipment. One gangster explained: "We were up here fishing. We got one 17-lb. muskie. The guns? Why, we had those to shoot...
Ambassador & Mrs. Grew serenely stood their ground. In two minutes it turned out that a Japanese policeman, thinking to turn on some electric lights, had pushed by mistake a lever which turned in a general alarm. "Very sorry! Must be fixed!" babbled an excited police official. "This accident has happened twice before...
Hotel Mediterraneo the green and yellow man was just a policeman...
...Horn & Hardart automat in Manhattan. It was during the hours when the restaurant offers table service. But the waitresses snubbed him, neglected to take his order. He called for the hostess. She promised to bring the manager. When he did not appear. Clergyman Tobias, thoroughly angered, summoned a policeman off the street, made him produce the manager. After an hour's wrangling Channing Tobias, no ordinary clergyman but senior secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s colored work, stormed out in disgust, sued Horn & Hardart for denying his civil rights...