Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News, remarking how Policeman Hoover dallied in Miami, recalled his recent report that a shortage of personnel had left his department with 7,448 unassigned cases, plus 7,736 on which no work had been done for the last 45 days...
Once upon a time Mayor La Guardia assigned a Jewish policeman to guard the German Consulate in New York. To Clare Boothe the Mayor's little joke was a God-send. Around the consul she built an extenuated murder mystery which at one time was ready to involve all the non-Aryans in Hitland. She gave him six fellow characters all with good reason to kill him. Miss Boothe called it "Margin For Error," and after a long run in New York, almost as much a mystery as the plot, it reopened last night at the Plymouth...
Christmas week in New Orleans, Friends Fisher & Levi got tight on Ramos gin fizzes (a drink that was new to them), pelted a policeman with a toy elephant, placated Mrs. Fisher with an armful of knickknacks. On the Gulf, after a day and a half of freezing storm, Pilot Levi headed for Mobile Bay, beached the boat. Cook Galloway leaped ashore. "I'm never going back on that boat again," he announced, and trudged off toward Mobile. Next day the Fishers and Bushman headed back...
That scared Forney. He stepped on the gas, ignored the red lights, dodged cross-town traffic as best he could, hoped no policeman would stop him. None did. The man told Forney to take him to the Psychiatric Division. When they pulled up to the door with a screech, the meter read 95?. The man struggled with his wallet...
Said the nurse calmly: "Patients can't be admitted unless accompanied by a policeman." "But this man is dying!" "You'll have to get a policeman...