Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, a burly policeman who could not stand the gaff, passed out with a loud expiration, and Vag leaped over his prostrate body to grab a handful of Valentine cards--frilly ones with Cupids and lace, uproarious ones with embarrassed beans, and sentimental ones with honey sayings. Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime...
...Fatherland for duty as an aviation instructor. From the German Consulate he got money for his passage via Siberia. Last week he went to Harlem for one last fling before returning to the land of Aryans. When it was over he found he had lost $117. He got a policeman to arrest his party companion, a Negro lady named Miss Reno Jones. In court, the judge told Otto Prignitz he must wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that long," blustered Otto Prignitz. "I must obey Führer Hitler and get back to Germany...
Last week amiable Lourival Fontes and hard-boiled Civis Muller waited breathlessly to see who would be chosen Minister of Press & Propaganda by President Vargas. Lourival Fontes got the call. Civis Muller went back to his duty as a policeman. And Getulio Vargas enjoyed his mamau once more...
...Juror No. 6 was brunette, gap-toothed Mrs. Angeline Muscarella, 29, who had three women deputies watching over her. Deputy Sheriff Alfred Warner also had Mrs. Muscarella in hand. A Buffalo policeman later testified: "He [Warner] said that he had had improper relations with Mrs. Muscarella during the time he was guarding the jury...
...nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman effort, but not forever." When vilification of Britain was in order, he was among the loudest and most insistent, branding the enemy "a dark smudge off the Continent," "a heap of moneybags." "a rich parvenu wishing to play world policeman...