Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dwyer became successively a coal passer, longshoreman, hod carrier, plasterer's helper, policeman, attorney, magistrate, juvenile-delinquency expert, county judge, district attorney. Steadily the Democratic machine had brought him along. His culminating feat: smashing Brooklyn's grubby ring of gutter killers, dubbed "Murder...
...expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
This challenge would have been more appealing had not OPM declared two months ago that there was no newsprint shortage in sight. It would have been more convincing had not Paper Policeman McKenna suddenly boosted OPM's estimate of paper needs by nearly 40%-two months ago OPM set demand at only 18½ million tons. It was evident that OPM's figures on paper supply & demand, production capacities, are contradictory, that the Government is approaching paper rationing with as little savvy as gasoline rationing...
...rest of the cast cannot be blamed for hardly making an impression. Author Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, onetime newspaperman, short-story writer and sometime playwright, forgot to provide his play with more than one character. The rest of his dramatis personae, including a policeman, an A.R.P. warden, a British colonel and an Irishman, he apparently picked from the most fatuous stereotypes in Punch's files. He also forgot to provide any dramatic reason for his first act and frequently let his farce run at cross purposes with his blood & thunder...
...Washington, Price Policeman Leon Henderson said he had never heard of the scheme, predicted: "We'll take care of that." But Leon has not indicated he will disapprove $131 to $202 price increases on the new Buicks. Unless he changes his mind about Buick, he must logically assent to similar boosts on other makes, regardless of who does the boosting...