Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cronin maintained yesterday that "nothing unusual happened in my place over the weekend. I won't say we're infallible in not selling liquor to minors, but it's rare if we do." But Cronin did say that "from now on, there will be a policeman around to watch out for disturbances on nights of big weekends. They are merely serving to keep order and not checking on the ages of persons drinking liquor...
...gross business was probably more than the traffic would bear. Even more discouraging was form 11-C. Names and addresses on it would be open to local police, who are supposed to enforce antigambling laws in 47 states (gambling is legal in Nevada). Even a bribed policeman would find it hard to protect a gambler whose name and address appeared on a federal list...
...jump!" Staring down at the crowd, he said: "The people down there tell me to jump. The people up here tell me not to. What am I to do?" For two hours and 35 minutes, the nerve-racking struggle went on. But finally, after the priest and the policeman promised that he would not be jailed, the youth climbed slowly back down the ladder and slipped through the 19th-floor window...
...that the first serious rift developed between Harvard and its protege Princeton. Often referred to as "the outburst of '26" it resulted from the H-P football game that year when Princeton students absconded with six policeman's hats and the Harvard Lampoon distributed an exceptionally tasteless issue. Our Alumni Bulletin found it impossible to understand how even the immature Poonmen could have been guilty of such bad taste and vulgarity. President Lowell's letter to Princeton's President Hibben made the only possible apology -- that the Lampoon's lack of sense of humor is apt to be replaced...
...students were arrested Monday night after a fracas with two policemen who had been parked in a patrol car outside the Wursthaus. One of the pair made offensive remarks to the officers and broke away and ran when asked for clarification. The policeman chased him and according to friends of the students, knocked him unconscious with a night-stick...