Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman in the street was directing traffic eight lines wide. On the corner loitered a small-town policeman out of work, and a medicine show barker. A man who had worked his way through Northwestern University and was now driving a taxi, waited for a fare. A shipping clerk waited for a bus. Among the thousands thronging by were a housewife, a sporty realtor and his friend, a petty municipal official. In a luggage store across the street a hotel clerk asked a salesman to show him the men's room...
...Couldn't you find a policeman who knew him?" asked Judge Frank M. Padden of Assistant State's Attorney Harry S. Ditchburne...
...soon as he was taken to St. Joseph, Mo., Killer Burke found that a half-dozen states were clamoring to try him on murder charges. Michigan wanted him for shooting down a St. Joseph policeman in cold blood while discussing a minor traffic accident, since which time Killer Burke had not been seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp...
Malays are lazy, so lazy that not only will they not work, but they will not even make good at standing-&-waving jobs (such as that of a traffic policeman). Result : The British have allowed the Malays fend their little rajas to be as lazy as they like. Most hard work is done and much big money is made by Chinese immigrants whose palaces grow constantly more numerous. The British keep largely in their own hands the banking and shipping. They, too, wax rich...
...That all depends," said the policeman stoutly, looking Common Clay in the eye, "on what you say and what...