Word: policemanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...understand about the Old School Tie [TIME, May 7], but what the heck is a Rotary Club? Is it a policeman's stick, a society of egg beaters, or a group of soldiers waiting for a furlough...
Wilhelm Frick, a roistering Munich policeman who had risen to become "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, was a prisoner. It was Frick who, as premier of Thuringia, had conferred German citizenship on Austrian-born Adolf Hitler...
...sailors, seconded by a growing mob of civilians, stampeded the Government liquor stores, which had been shut tight as a V-E-day precaution. They smashed windows, passed out cases of liquor, wines, beer. Expropriated liquor sold for $1 a bottle or was simply given away. Said a policeman: "They were drinking whiskey by the case." They kept drinking, with occasional pauses for pillage, all night...
Irresistible. In Tacoma, Wash., handsome Policeman Patrick O'Malley, walking his beat, was hugged by a pretty, impulsive blonde, dutifully had her fined $15 and costs for disorderly conduct...
Live & Learn. In Detroit, Cabdriver Wilfred Higgins, a former Honolulu policeman who was sent by his department to Northwestern University for a three-months' safety course, paid his sixth traffic fine in ten months...