Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke into her dressing room, announced himself as "Grimmick, the attorney," started in a businesslike way to unzip her black tights. Her screams brought suave Cinemactor George Sanders, a gatekeeper and a studio policeman. Later, in the Hollywood police station, Carole pointed an indignant finger at smirking Attorney Charles Gramlich, a former mental patient, and undramatically said: "That...
Next morning he walked up to a policeman, asked: "How do you get to Bordeaux Jail?" There he picked up his few possessions, said goodbye to friends. He phoned the Protestant jail chaplain, the Rev. Gordon Phillips, who had helped free him, and the kindly chaplain took him to his home...
...finesse, the film's makers laid on the loving kindness with such a broad commercial trowel that the effect is often suffocating. Most of the archness and comedy is even harder to take: e.g., the mystification over such bits of vital indigenous slang as "hot dog" and "bull" (policeman...
...breeder of dirty politicians"); 2) the schools ("my oldest son enters the fourth grade soon . . . in three years he has had very little actual knowledge offered him. [He] can barely write"); 3) the city employes ("what a sorry lot . . . barely a day goes by but what some policeman or two run down some poor defenseless Negro...
...where this fear is the main preoccupation of family life. . . . Freedom from fear.-but this has been interpreted as if it were only freedom from the fear of invasion by a foreign country. . . . That is not the fear of ordinary families in Europe tonight. Their fear is of the policeman knocking at the door. It is fear for the life and liberty of the individual...