Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night before Thanksgiving, Dubinsky dropped into the bar of the Hotel Roosevelt. Joseph Fay, who once was shot by a policeman, rose to become boss of building trade unions in New Jersey, was there before him. It was after midnight. Fay, according to witnesses and his later acknowledgment, had been drinking since 5 in the afternoon. Others in the bar included George E. Browne, president of the stage hands' union, 12th vice president of A. F. of L. Once charged with being the "front" for the Capone mob, Browne boasted among officials of his union Willie Bioff, convicted panderer...
...Alice Marble could play baseball as well as her brothers. She shagged flies after school for the slick San Francisco Seals. "Look here," said her brother Dan, a San Francisco policeman, "baseball is no game for a girl. Look at Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs. Why not lead the swell life they do-go round the world in style and just play a few tennis matches every day." Brother Dan bought his kid sister a racquet, shoved her off to Golden Gate Park's public courts...
...watch traffic along Cambridge Street. Down the hall in a library-common room another group smokes, reads Esquire and the New Yorker, occasionally studies. Off the kitchen, where a stoutish chap is raiding the refrigerator, the Bonfire Band struggles through "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in preparation for the policeman-fireman ball. And the impression that a firefighter's nine and one-half hour daily stint cannot be classified as labor is confirmed by long rows of cots in the second floor dormitory...
...dean, house-master, and scholar-gentleman. So small was C.N.G.'s love of personal fame that, after ten years as dean in the expanding days of the Lowell administration, and five as first master of Dunster House, he could tell a friend that he had been "ten years a policeman and five years a hotel clerk...
Secretary Early's explanation: "... A policeman appears to have been hurt. . . . I did not attack or kick any officer. But since one officer believes I was responsible for hurting him, I wish to apologize. . . . I cannot understand why Republican politicians are attempting to find political significance in this incident...