Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday afternoon. For a half hour or tonger a crowd had been collecting hoping to get into the already filled building. The tall lady who alighted from the car could not make her way through the people intent on entering; a crowed of backs barred her way. Finally a policeman appeared and helped Mrs. Roosevelt through the crowd and into Sanders Theatre...
Desseau, who walked out of Stillman Infirmary Sunday morning, was spotted by a Cambridge policeman who recognized him from a telegraphed description. He was taken back to the University police station. He had been in Cambridge the entire time of his disappearance, he he told the police...
Gloomy Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler (see BOOKS), booked for punching a Paris policeman, candidly admitted that it was true. He said he celebrated finishing a new book by getting drunk, went to sleep at the curb in his car after deciding "the road seemed to be going uphill all the way." When he was arrested and taken to the station house, "conditioned by my past experiences with policemen, I lost my temper and struck this officer. The police merely held my hands until I had regained my temper. Later the police showed some willingness to forget...
Professional Pride. In Miami, Mrs. Marian Smith Steeves, home economics instructor at the University of Miami, charged in a divorce suit that her husband complained about her cooking. In Miami, William Forster, onetime New York policeman, sued for divorce on the ground that his wife "intimidated...
Whisky for a Widow. The world of 1900 was not so vast and diffuse as airborne 1950 imagines it to have been. 1900 had a focus-Britain, the banker, educator and policeman to the world. And the focus had a symbol, Victoria Regina. She stood for sureness, security, principle. After Prince Albert died in 1861 she had his evening clothes laid out every night as a memorial ritual of constancy. She had once rebuked a Minister who used the word expediency: "My lord, I have been taught to judge between what was right and what was wrong; 'expediency...