Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three horses abreast in Central Park. They were hitched to a high blue dogcart. She wore a blue driving habit and their harness was of blue kid to match, trimmed with solid silver. One day a saddle horse bolted with her in the Park. She was rescued by Mounted Policeman Arthur M. Werner, whom she promptly married. In 1916 ex-Policeman Werner tried to make her raise his allowance from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. She kicked him out of the house, had the marriage annulled...
...first morning in Athens, Mr. Insull sat on a balcony sipping a cup of strong Turkish coffee. He may have noticed a number of cars around his hotel, the drivers all eying him. Finally an Athenian policeman emerged from one car and approached Mr. Insull, informed him he was under arrest. The American Legation had asked Athenian police to detain him in order to give the U. S. State Department time to decide whether or not to ask Greece, with which no extradition treaty has been completely established, to send Mr. Insull back to face U. S. justice...
Secretary of War Hurley carried his campaign for the Hoover recovery program flamboyantly into Tennessee. At Johnson City he was heckled and booed because of his opposition to the Bonus, his treatment of the B. E. F. When a policeman started to oust the heckler, Secretary Hurley exclaimed: "Let him alone. Let him earn his money. Such demonstrations are prompted by reports of the American Legion convention broadcast by a Boston ward-heeling politician who never saw the inside of a U. S. uniform. . . .? Yes, I'm opposed to the Bonus and I've got nerve enough...
This work includes investigation of the 3,000 violent or strange deaths which happen in big New York City each year. No policeman dares touch a corpse until Dr. Norris or his chief aides appear. In his career Dr. Norris has performed some 4,000 autopsies himself. Perhaps in war-time some individual performed more post mortems. But Dr. Norris holds the peacetime record...
...hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...