Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kassel a policeman was killed and a 90-year-old shoemaker shot dead as he watched the riot from his window. In Hamburg five people were wounded. In Bremen rioters stoned policemen, belabored them with short lengths of drainpipe. In Mühlheim six Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists...
...desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from Ohio." Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate." When the policeman (whom he referred to in court as "Dick") had tried to quiet him, Fess directed his hostility at him. To the magistrate Fess explained: "I was celebrating an addition to our family four days ago. I want the court to accept...
...five years. She deprived him of a bone. Whereupon he dashed at her, gripped her leg. She tripped. Her calf tore loose in the dog's mouth. She screamed. He tore at her again and again, even after she fainted from loss of blood. A policeman's bullet ended the dog's attack. His mistress died...
...past 15 years, headquarters for vaudevillians in Manhattan has been the National Variety Artists' Club in West 46th Street. Many a legend surrounds the place. One is that a policeman, passing late one night, spied a group of men hanging around the front door. Thinking them loafers, he ordered them to move along. To the constable's surprise, one member of the group, a tumbler, complied by doing a series of back flips all the way up the sidewalk to Broadway. Last week the N. V. A. clubhouse itself entered legend. A $150,000 deficit closed its doors...
...Saturday afternoon a Cambridge policeman discovered a raccoon sitting on the top of a tree in the Yard. Somewhat disturbed by the crowd which soon collected under his perch, the raccoon removed itself in haste to the top of the Hemenway gymnasium, where for a time it appeared quite safe...