Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here was a conception brand-new to the long and fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...
...coronation chair were the initials J.F.S., meaning possibly Justice for Scotland. Archdeacon S. J. Marriott thought that the theft was an elaborately planned job. Said he: "Early that morning I heard a crowd of drunks singing loudly outside. They might have been covering up for the noises inside." A policeman reported having questioned a man and a woman in a small, English-built Ford parked by the Abbey that night; he received a reply in unmistakable Scottish accents...
Young in Heart. In Muskegon, Mich., Mrs. Ada Vader, 63, was arrested for knocking a policeman's cap off with a snowball...
...indeed, the prize-giving season. Outside the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, a policeman remarked to the driver of a Radio Diffusion Franchise truck that he had sensed a new vitality in French literature this year...
...another startling story to tell. One Leon Bishop, a gambler, had told George that he was sent by Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren to Hialeah to take over crap games, roulette wheels and all gambling except horse racing. George said that Bishop walked in last December when Policeman George was helping to raid a gambling joint in Hialeah. Bishop went to the telephone. Five minutes later, George related, he was called to the telephone himself and told by another gambler to "get the hell out of there" because Leon Bishop was a close friend of the governor. Governor...