Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the Third Rail. In Boston, Francis E. O'Malley, chased down the subway tracks by a policeman and a subway starter, was caught at the next station, declared he knew no reason for the chase, later was surprised to learn his pursuers had none either...
Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
Actually, Britons, temperamentally incapable of becoming totalitarian robots, were not taking and would not take much downtreading from socialists or anybody else. Some might mutter that Morrison wanted to be a policeman "like his father." But Morrison knows his Britain; he put up a sign in London classrooms expressing a most anti-authoritarian sentiment: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...
Nuts. In Des Moines, prankish burglars robbed the Hawkeye Nut Co. of $125, mailed the proprietor a cartoon which showed squirrels carrying nuts out of a basement window while a watching policeman telephoned: "Sarge, I've just solved that nut shop robbery...