Word: policemanly
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Tried & True. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...
...machines and their operators both had weaknesses. The liars, gaining experience, became so accomplished that Policeman John E. Reid, Chicago's lie-detector expert, has had to modernize his machines to cope with trickier lying...
...broke into her dressing room, announced himself as "Grimmick, the attorney," started in a businesslike way to unzip her black tights. Her screams brought suave Cinemactor George Sanders, a gatekeeper and a studio policeman. Later, in the Hollywood police station, Carole pointed an indignant finger at smirking Attorney Charles Gramlich, a former mental patient, and undramatically said: "That...
Next morning he walked up to a policeman, asked: "How do you get to Bordeaux Jail?" There he picked up his few possessions, said goodbye to friends. He phoned the Protestant jail chaplain, the Rev. Gordon Phillips, who had helped free him, and the kindly chaplain took him to his home...
...finesse, the film's makers laid on the loving kindness with such a broad commercial trowel that the effect is often suffocating. Most of the archness and comedy is even harder to take: e.g., the mystification over such bits of vital indigenous slang as "hot dog" and "bull" (policeman...