Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn hulking Deputy Sheriff Vincent Glynn, nephew of Alfred Enianuel Smith, was charged with homicide after he shot & killed a jobless youth on whom he was trying to serve a warrant for nonsupport. His story: that the youth hit him and ran. Few years ago Glynn was a city policeman, was involved in a hit-&-run driving case, quit the force following a shooting scrape in a speakeasy...
...Give the cops hell!" a veteran shouted. His massed companions pressed in upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
Plump, baldish Ralph Leo Richards, half-brother of chubby Vincent Richards, tennis professional, escaped with three cellmates from Eastview Penitentiary, N. Y. where he was serving a one-year term for assaulting a policeman...
...Evanston, Ill., one Thomas Getman, 17, was fined $10 for inscribing on his license application: "Nerts to all policeman...
...jacket of his travelog, in which he tells of his recent peregrinations from Berlin to Budapest and back, Author Hergesheimer is pictured standing with a Berlin policeman pointing down the street. From Author Hergesheimer's expression if, is clear that there is another beer hall a little farther on. Almost exclusively from beer halls, famed restaurants and night clubs, does he survey the contemporary Central European scene. A characteristic vista: "I had dinner, alone, at the Restaurant Atelier, and sat for a long time over a plate of wild strawberries, a superlative Punch cigar, and mild Austrian brandy...