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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreeable to all who visit him. He will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas Lipton; the famed Hall of Fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chase to N. Y. U. | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found him out. When his own sleek cue was finally twisted around his neck, his murderer bolstered him against a lamp post, talked to him casually until a policeman approached on his rounds. The policeman passed. The body fell to the ground with a gruesome, final thud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Curtain | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins a street-corner meeting in which a policeman is killed. He is convicted of the murder and hanged, largely because of his radical opinions. Other scenes tabloid black-hearted iron tycoons, grimy politicians, venal judges, rich diplomats. Written strongly and at the top of its lungs, broadly directed by Author Rice, excellently cast, We, the People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Number Two. William ("Three-fingered Jack") White scrupulously gloves his right hand, is quite sensitive about his deformity. He was acquitted of participation in the $80,000 International Harvester holdup eight years ago and of killing a policeman. Lately his talents have been directed toward the union labor field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Enemies, Second Series | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...prudence and propriety of smokestack royalty as gracefully as it embellished the legend of Southern romance. Such was not the case. The wedding of Anne Cannon and Smith Reynolds was celebrated at midnight in York, S. C. There were no witnesses except the bride's father and a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reynolds v. Reynolds | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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