Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again the wild-eyed Swancutt opened fire. Two bullets landed in Schlegel's chest, two hit Policeman Simpson, who kept firing as he fell. Policeman Cole, a pistol marksman, blazed away. That was the end of the rampage. Swancutt was lugged off to a hospital, charged with murder, held for a military trial...
...second contingent followed. By last week some 22 couples-including a former railroader, schoolteacher, farmer, shipyard worker, salesman, policeman-and 35 children had arrived from the States and were being distributed around the frozen northland to man the stations and keep the planes flying...
...eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced his candidacy: "Surely there is no quicker or better...
Bomby Boyhood. Peter Cooper's grandchildren were such hellions that the City of New York had to keep a policeman at Gramercy ' Park to watch them. Using some giant firecrackers and a small charge of gunpowder, they blew up the policeman's hut while he was inside. Later they eluded the police by sawing a hole through the iron railings around the park. Once they constructed a fiddle to frighten the neighbors. It had a box four feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, and a bow twelve feet long. It emitted an unearthly bellow...
Bushnell saw a superb chance to settle old accounts with Boston's Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty. Policeman Timilty's popularity had survived ugly rumors of police corruption, of criminal incompetence in connection with last year's Cocoanut Grove fire (492 burned to death...