Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon Judge Jeffries removed his spectacles and stepped down from the bench. As Lawyer Jeffries, he examined the State's witness, a policeman who said he had approached the defendant, searched him, found in his pocket a piece of pipe wrapped in newspaper...
Most vexed, Mr. Robison removed his glasses, prepared to use his fists. But uniformed Japanese policeman No. 73 shouted: "Hold your head and go away!" A Mr. Swain also advised Mr. Robison that as the U. S. Trade Commissioner he ought not to use his fists. Mr. Robison got out his glasses again, put them on, entered his car, let in his clutch. Pantherlike, one of the armbanded Japanese sprang upon the running board, hit Mr. Robison a smashing blow in the face as he drove away amid Japanese guffaws...
...failed to keep pace with the march of physical accomplishments." Asked in Manhattan if he had more works in mind, he replied, "That rests with God." TIME erred when it reported (Feb. 29) that Henry W. Moltke was a San Francisco taxi driver, instead of a San Francisco policeman. But Policeman Moltke also erred when he told a local judge that he was the grandson of the late great Prussian General Hermuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke who died without issue...
...that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...
...theatre is showing four feature films and giving away a room and bath for a dime. Another equally disastrous theatrical season, it is prophesied, and the show business will be back to the magic lantern. But there are people who still have plenty of money. They are Policeman Meshbesher (Hugh O'Connell) and those other fortunates who have been able to buy a seat on the force. It is Mrs. Meshbesher (Mary Boland) who declares that she has so many diamonds "you can see me from Yonkers." When Inquisitor Samuel Seabury (see p. 13) threatens the policemen with...