Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing him for maintenance...
...Brooklyn, Policeman Frank Wright spied a nocturnal prowler in his garden. He grabbed his pistol, rushed out of the house in his pajamas, took after the fleeing prowler, dropped him with a bullet in the ankle. "Well, you did it," said the wounded man as Policeman Wright glowered above him. A neighbor, Irving Katlin, the prowler said he was an insomniac. He had entered Policeman Wright's garden, which he had long admired, to soothe his sleeplessness. Policeman Wright, contrite, called an ambulance and said: "I'll give you some of my rose slips...
...State of Rhode Island has determined to make a trial of the modern methods of psychology in criminology. Armand Lescault, a 17 year old boy who last year murdered a policeman, is to have twenty years of personal scientific training and observation, at the end of which time he should be ready to re-enter the world as a useful citizen. The success of the experiment depends on the spirit in which it was conceived and the thoroughness with which it is to be carried...
...highly artificial, Chevalier's songs spring spontaneously. Even Jeannette MacDonald's trademark scene, the one in which she shows her underclothes, is bearable. Some Lubitsch touches: a small light going on & off at the head of a bed which contains Chevalier and MacDonald ; Chevalier trying to convince a policeman that the lady with whom he has been entwined on a park bench is his wife...
...Ring was broken. The Boss fled to Spain, a fugitive from justice. He was arrested in Vigo on the charge of "kidnapping two American children." This curious charge was explained by the fact that he was identified by a Spanish policeman from an old Nast cartoon that showed the Boss as a Tammany policeman collaring two small ragamuffins, labeled "Lesser Thieves." The Boss died in New York's Ludlow Street jail. In his luggage was every Nast cartoon ever drawn...