Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News. In San Francisco, Night City Editor Larry McManus of the Chronicle got a call from a country correspondent about a traffic policeman injured in a fall from his motorcycle, asked where the cop had been going, got the reply: "Oh, to some airplane crash...
...Barnsdall Jr., a lawyer of Buffalo, lent a policeman a pencil to write, out a parking ticket, later got off on the ground that the ticket was not written in ink or indelible pencil...
...planted part of a onetime German Army parade ground nearby. His wife made Christmas tree decorations and other knickknacks from colored paper and pine cones. One night last week, a group of U.S., French and German police aroused them at midnight. Stuckebrock leaped for his coat. A German policeman stopped him before he got a poison vial. Under guard, the two former Nazi leaders were taken away...
Northside is based on the true story (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945) of one Joe Majczek, a Chicagoan charged with the murder of a policeman in 1932 and sentenced to 99 years in Stateville Penitentiary. Majczek was cleared, almost 13 years later, through the efforts of his mother and of a reporter for the Chicago Times...
...oranges, chickens, beans, eggs skittered nervously upward. Many a thrifty soul with a sockful of 5,000-franc notes spent an anxious two days before he learned that the government would redeem his notes in full-if he could prove that he came by them legally. Said a Paris policeman: "This is a bitter pill, but we will have to swallow it. Let's hope it will save France...