Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in Rumania, illegally. She was arrested for "subversive activities endangering the security of the state." On that occasion a policeman shot and wounded her ; the bullet is still in her leg. She had served five years of a ten-year sentence when, in a 1941 exchange of prisoners between Russia and Rumania, Moscow asked for and got Ana; she became a Soviet citizen. About that time her husband disappeared. (His probable fate: execution as a Trotskyite after Ana turned him in to Soviet police.) Their son, Vlad, is in the Rumanian Army. Daughters Tanya and Marie are in school...
...Garce!" One woman near me had a titanic struggle with a giant policeman; he had been calmly walking through the crowd, slamming with his white baton at heads on either side of him, mowing a path like a man with a scythe in a field. When the policeman reached the woman, she flung herself at his legs, clawing and kicking. Without changing expression, he shifted his stick to his left hand, and with his right forearm dealt her a terrific swipe which sent her skidding across the road to the curb, against which she gashed her head. The cop looked...
Communists demanded her resignation as mayor, besieged her home, picketed the town hall. One day an agile comrade; threw a right hook past a policeman's shoulder to Renée's Grecian nose, altering its shape somewhat. Her sponsors whisked her to a refuge. But she would not resign...
...Matters. Everything went smoothly until one morning last week, when the lecturer injected some personal hygiene instruction into the program. Painted faces grew redder as he discussed physiological details, with blackboard drawings. Autumn Fragrance and Jade Object nervously lighted cigarettes, violating the ban on smoking in class. When a policeman reprimanded them, they angrily retorted that they Would not listen to such "obscene speech." The policeman drew a pistol, but a moment later retreated before the screaming and clawing girls...
...scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, found almost no audience...