Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Policeman's Mission. Who is Beria? The known facts of his life could be handily engraved on a police badge. Beria is one of the 14 members of the all powerful Politburo; he still supervises the secret police, which he controlled directly for nine years when it was called the NKVD. Every Soviet citizen knows his name, knows that he is a Georgian, like Stalin; that he is 47 years old; that he wields great and mysterious power. But Russians and Americans both might learn a lot more about Deputy Beria and his Berlin mission through one revealing anecdote...
Among those ruins, music and laughter were an unusual sound effect. The policeman, who was new on his beat in Berlin's ghostly, once posh Zoo district, decided to investigate. He found a door marked only with the sign "Please Pull Hard." He pulled. Inside were smartly dressed men & women, lounging at a long bar or drinking champagne at small tables. A singer and piano player trilled out melodies...
...policeman's entrance created a minor disturbance. The piano player stopped playing, offered him a drink. The policeman declined, menacingly pulled out his little black book. Then a man whom he recognized as one of Germany's leading film stars came over, and said soothingly: "Don't be foolish. There's an English general here who wants to amuse himself. We lost the war, didn't we? Have a drink." The policeman muttered but took the drink. A lovely girl swished up to him, and another Berlin black-market nightclub was as good as saved...
...frowning Oberwachtmeister (police sergeant) appeared. By this time, the first policeman was at the bar, singing. While the guests waited with bated breath, the two cops had a conference over cognac. Then the Oberwachtmeister pulled out his own little black book, approached the nearest film star and asked: "May I have your autograph?" In return, he displayed a picture of himself: "See, this is how I looked before I was sent to concentration camp-I was a big, fat man." Amid little cries of sympathy, his book rapidly filled with famous names. "Oh," he said. "My wife will...
...served with a writ charging 'indecent behavior in a public thoroughfare," was ordered by a district court to pay a ?2 fine. Three dignified members of an appeal bench heard the outraged policeman give evidence: it was not in keeping with Egyptian tradition that a girl should "practically embrace a man in the street. In fact, husbands & wives, when in public view, always walked at a respectable distance of at least six feet...