Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman who hurried up, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd explained: "I stepped in to see the Navy didn't take a licking...
...money by limiting personal liberty of Americans." In ensuing months the scope of the publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine had a financial backer in portly, grey-haired Charles H. Crawford, a local political boss who had been involved in many an unsavory mess. And last February it acquired a new writer: Herbert F. Spencer, a coast newspaperman of good repute, six years city editor...
...went down there!" they cried, pointing to a cellar door. Chief Russell drew his revolver, started downstairs. The squirrel, hiding just inside the cellar entrance, darted at the Chief, fastened itself on his trouser-leg. Believing at last, the policeman calmly kicked the animal to the bottom of the stairs. It sat there, blinking up at him. It must have rabies, he thought; he must not destroy its head, which the health authorities would want to examine. Carefully he aimed his service revolver, steadily fired, blew a hole through its shoulders. Then he went down and picked up the body...
...taxi driver. They were undersized Francis Crowley, 19year-old lather, and Rudolph Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...
...have set in motion a unique expedition into a new field of world economics," said Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, the big, handsome Manhattan lawyer (onetime policeman, onetime pugilist), who has worked over this plan steadily for the past nine months...