Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Garner, calling at the White House, noticed some new chromium door knobs at the entrance to the executive offices. Said he to a White House policeman: "Why, those are the same kind of handles they have on caskets. Is anyone expecting a funeral around here-say, about March...
...shoulders the burden of the suspension of commercial relations with a nation which refuses to keep its word pledged in the treaty, is not a part of the national duty. Dr. Lowell's proposition, we fear, has in it a much more distinct purpose to make Uncle Sam the policeman of the universe than the sentiment of the American people will approve. If the League of Nations has proved itself impotent to carry out its own essential purposes, the condition is a justification of our decision not to join it rather than an incentive to such a course. --Boston Transcript...
...Macfadden began to make up for lost time. Upon the front of his Graphic he spread a full page "composograph" (faked picture) of a young man in Sing Sing's electric chair. The young man was Francis ("Two Gun") Crowley, 20, undersized, dull-witted hoodlum who murdered a policeman last year. His capture was a sensation of the sort on which he thrived. Cornered in a midtown apartment house with his 17-year-old girl friend and another gunman, he held off more than 100 police, armed with tear gas and machine guns, for two hours while newsreel cameras...
...full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve his bills, has killed a policeman. In the meantime. Fairbanks and the counterfeiter play rough hide-&-seek among the shunting trains in the station yard...
...Philadelphia, 19-year-old Woodrow Wilson Shumaker, unable to buy presents for his small brother and sister, set out to get them a Christmas tree. When a policeman saw him stealing one, Woodrow Wilson Schumaker tried to run away. The policeman shot him dead...