Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shivery sight met his eye as he turned the corner. On the sidewalk lay two men-a policeman and a cab driver. Another man, wounded, was struggling to rise. Clicking his camera faster than he could think, Max Haas moved toward the group on the street...
Daily Hudler is publisher of a weekly newspaper, the Times, in the little town (pop. 5,575) of Noblesville, Ind. One day last December a slight, cigar-chewing, onetime State policeman, Carl Losey, turned up in Noblesville, said he would like to buy Mr. Hudler's Noblesville press. Mr. Hudler said he was willing...
...announced to the A. R. P. control room in the basement with the comment: "There is one coming so close I could almost catch it." After the bomb exploded beside the already damaged building, the control room gibed to the spotter: "Butterfingers." Score for Bomb No. 2: Policeman John Charles Vaughn, recently engaged to Jean Orr Ewing, daughter of Brigadier General Sir Norman Archibald Orr Ewing...
...group rushed Photographer Mydans. He stood his ground, snapped them, got cracked on the back of the neck.* Now the crowd realized it had been tricked out of seeing the U. S. Vice President-elect. In blind fury they charged the Embassy steps. A brawl ensued. A policeman by mistake slugged U. S. Naval Attaché for Air Commander Wallace M. Dillon on the crown with a blackjack. A bemused Mexican singled out huge, tough U. S. Military Attaché Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There...
...Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. "Why didn't you stop me?" roared Lord Trenchard. "Oh, we recognized you, sir," replied the policeman...