Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, aged 35 and four months, weighing what he said was 149 lb., and what some observers estimated as high as 165, not discouraged by the fact that all his oldtime opponents have retired (to become, variously, a boxing instructor, policeman, haberdasher, poolroom proprietor, truant officer, referee, ironworker, gambler, newspaper vendor, sporting goods salesman), Benny Leonard announced his return to the ring. His onetime manager, Billy Gibson, was in a private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight...
...Star Witness (Warner). Seven members of a middle class family, accidentally present when a gangster kills a policeman, are terrorized by the gangster's subordinates to dissuade them from giving evidence against the murderer. First the gangsters kidnap and beat the father. Then they kidnap and prepare to despatch his urchin son. Finally, a spry, flask-nipping, Civil War veteran grandfather (Chic Sale) rescues the urchin. He wobbles into court munching his whiskers and ready to give the district attorney (Walter Huston) a star witness...
...have added knighthood** to their grey hairs by pursuing to the end such a hog-calling as a literary critic's. Evan Charteris's biography, which lets Gosse's own letters do most of the work, gives a fair picture of this peripatetic, ponderous but proficient policeman of Parnassus...
...Communist-Fascist riots broke out in Dortmund. Two Communists were killed, one policeman was gravely wounded. Charging schupos captured 30 prisoners...
...Angel Pestana, national head of the Syndicalists, attempted to lead a funeral procession in honor of a Syndicalist killed in a ruckus fortnight ago. Police barred the way. There was a scuffle. Knives flashed. Pistols banged. Angel Pestana prudently disappeared. When the firing ceased and the dust cleared one policeman and two Syndicalists lay dead. At least 15 men were seriously wounded...