Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Limits. Texaco has hit a new, and somewhat cynical, note by delivering its commercial through a carnival pitchman who impartially plugs snake-oil cures and Texaco products. The commercial ends abruptly with the sound of a policeman's whistle and the pitchman's panicky flight from the stage...
Love & Duty. In Louisville, Mrs. Marie Spalding bawled out her husband, a policeman, who arrested her for disorderly conduct. In Shanghai, Miss Hu Shu-cheng spurned her policeman suitor, who got her jailed for a year as a Communist...
Margy began going with Frankie Malone knowing he wasn't much. "But he was better than nobody. He would have served until a real boy friend came along." Frankie was the son of a policeman who tried to toughen him up by making him go out and fight with the boys. He grew up with an abiding fear of being a sissy, sensitive, selfconscious, a good dancer, a hard worker, ashamed of his family and relentlessly honest with himself. He met Margy at a soda fountain where they both lingered because neither of them wanted to go home...
...Young lady," asks the stern policeman, "don't you know you can't wear a two-piece bathing suit on the beach?" "Why no," answers the girl; "which piece shall I take...
...from a well-to-do family and knew nothing of people's problems." They wouldn't believe her description of London's Hyde Park: "They just couldn't imagine a place where one man talked of vegetarianism, while another argued the Communist line, and a policeman stood placidly...