Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Detroit's policeman-censor threatened to close Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten unless the actors stopped saying certain words, the words were just quietly dropped. Detroiters would no longer suffer the psychic trauma of: 1) "whore," 2) "bastard," 3) "God damn," 4) "son of a bitch," and 5) "blonde...
With the addition of patrol cars and two-way radios, the policeman's job is becoming more and more a profession, the role of the Police Station more and more pervasive. But despite the record Harvard enrollment, student brushes with the Law have remained at a pre-war minimum and as far as duty around the Yard is concerned, W. S. Gilbert was all wrong. The policeman's lot is getting better all the time...
Return Ticket. In River Edge, N.J., a policeman wrote the Rev. Walter J. Poynton a ticket, was forced to admit that he didn't have his own license with him, meekly accepted a ticket himself when the parson called another...
...allay police unrest the Prefecture of Police asked the Government to approve a twelve-franc (10^) bonus for every policeman who reports a street accident...
...constable (Dennis O'Dea), representing law and justice, is a humane and intelligent policeman, but his motives are as implacably businesslike as his search. Johnny's fellow revolutionists try to rescue him (and are killed or captured in the attempt), not for his own sake but as a point of honor, because he is their leader. The girl (Kathleen Ryan) tries to help Johnny because she would rather die- and if need be kill him-than endure a loveless life without him. An old priest (W. G. Fay) negotiates subtly for Johnny, because he feels that his business...