Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psycho?" Outside a policeman lobbed a tear-gas bomb through a window. The choking fumes drove Unruh downstairs. In a few minutes he opened the back door and came out, hands high, apparently completely unconcerned. A cop scrambled forward, handcuffed him. As he was hurried off, to be questioned by police and psychiatrists, a harried and sweating cop snapped...
Still At It. In Louisville, Policeman Alex Hatfield arrested Pete McCoy for disturbing the peace...
...apartment house on Ottawa's Elgin Street and walked toward his office on Parliament Hill. To a woman passer-by who smiled at him St. Laurent doffed his Panama. A grinning, unshaven drunk gave him a grandiose wave, got a nod in return. At a busy intersection, a policeman directing traffic kept him waiting at the curb while two streetcars rumbled by. In the five-block walk, only half a dozen Canadians saluted their handsome, 67-year-old Prime Minister...
...enactment gave the police some clues. Explained one policeman: "Just little things. Like that expression soyez braves. Only a man from the south of France would have said it. One never knows just which little item will lead to the criminals." But at week's end, the only other clues found by the Cannes police in a blinding mistral were the abandoned Citroen and, in the car, a pair of maroon gloves and Basque beret, all with Marseille labels. Mused one policeman darkly: "Probably left in the car to throw...
...night last February, Coley B. Chapman, 26, a Negro laborer for the Long Island Rail Road, was waiting for a train in Washington's Union Station when Terminal Policeman Carl Neuman tried to arrest him for drunkenness. In the scuffle, a bullet from Neuman's revolver entered Chapman's forehead, came out just behind the hairline...