Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burned Up. In Monroe, Wis., desk policeman Herb Bolliger 1) got a frantic call for the fire department; 2) threw the fire switch-which wouldn't work; 3) raced to the fire station and yanked a bell cord-which broke; 4) whirled to rush back to the police station siren, tripped over a rope coil; 5) switched on the siren; 6) answered the phone again, heard: ". . . fire under control...
December. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...
...medical care. The mine operators, who were losing a lot of money (probably enough, says Dr. Betty, to have cleaned up the sewage), locked up Dr. Betty's office, on which she had paid the rent, took out some of her medical supplies and books and put a policeman at the door to keep her out. She haled the mine managers into court...
Tried & True. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...
...machines and their operators both had weaknesses. The liars, gaining experience, became so accomplished that Policeman John E. Reid, Chicago's lie-detector expert, has had to modernize his machines to cope with trickier lying...