Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament to a traffic policeman. At a cinema performance of Ben Hur at a fair in Mollet, Spain, a colporteur stood by the door crying: "The Holy Gospels! With all the texts that are thrown on the screen in the film!" He sold...
...Manhattan. Policeman Charles Benvenuto found one Oscar Lindquist, a sailor, foundering in traffic. As Policeman Benvenuto hurried to arrest him Sailor Lindquist stumbled, fell, dropped a bundle, which rolled between two car tracks. Policeman Benvenuto recovered the bundle, opened it, found inside a 2-year-old baby. Sailor Lindquist thought he might have got it in a speakeasy...
...jumped sleepers, up flew windows. Teddy continued to scream. Angered residents called the police, nine policemen arrived, tried to entice Teddy out with catnip and pork. Teddy stayed put. The policemen chopped through a 4-in. wall, found it was the wrong wall. They chopped another hole, a policeman reached for Teddy, Teddy reached the policeman first, the policeman let go. A boy pulled Teddy out, the S.P.C.A. executed him painlessly with lethal gas, the neighborhood slept again...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...
...little old lady continued to resist all efforts to "take care" of her. She puffed nervously on cigars, told a granddaughter how her money had been taken away, asked her to "get me a nice Irish policeman. He must be a Catholic and a Republican...