Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then reviewed the steps leading up to Ward's refusal to obey the War Labor Board and sign a contract with the union. They had the right to refuse, the President said; sure, they had the right, just as any citizen has the right to tell a policeman who is going to arrest him that he doesn't want to go to jail. But the policeman has the right to take him there...
...always returns to the scene of his crime; that quicklime will liquidate a body (quicklime tends to preserve it); that surprise or fear may be fixed on a victim's face (death relaxes the muscles); that a bullet in the heart kills instantly (Dr. Snyder tells of a policeman who, after being shot through the heart, fired six shots at his murderer, walked across a street to his car before he died...
Shank of the Evening. In Kankakee, Ill., Police Chief Nelson put Sergeant Bert Luckey on regular duty so that he positively could not attend the annual policeman's ball. Last year the Sergeant's wooden leg broke under the pressure, spilled ball bearings and dancers all over the floor...
...Life. In Honolulu, Teisu Miyashiro, a laborer, barked at pedestrians, at the policeman who arrested him, at the prosecuting attorney in court. Barked the judge: "Take him away and put him in the pound...
...forest, a vast area had been cleared away. Much of Tom Dewey's strength had come from Old Guard Republican leaders determined to beat Willkie at any cost. They had used Tom Dewey as a parking place while they beat Willkie. But if they parked too long, Policeman Dewey would tag them. The politicos pondered; and the path for a dark horse was by no means closed...