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Word: policewoman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand; in the front room, bloody handprints on a nightshirt hung on the doorknob. In the garage, near 18 heavy packing cases, was a pile of 100 used light bulbs. Prize clue, the police considered, was the size-11 bedroom slippers. They set a policewoman translator at the Doctor's desk, soon had a list of eight suspects. At week's end they were hunting a heavily muscled young third-rate prize fighter called "Swede," had traced him to a Florida-bound bus. All the paraphernalia of an international murder mystery surrounded the case: only the motive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Mary Sullivan became a policewoman in 1911, when she was 27, became New York City's Director of Policewomen in 1925. She has guarded women prisoners from the Tenderloin, kept arrested women from committing suicide, taken care of abandoned babies, investigated dance halls, abortionists, matrimonial agencies, posed as a brothel keeper to get evidence against white slavers. She finds detective stories exasperating, thinks girls who answer matrimonial advertisements are taking a chance of getting murdered, writes sensibly, bluntly, complacently about feminine police work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Department. Part of her job was to keep her door open to the less criminal among the city's unfortunates, listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chronicle's Kate | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...When people come to see me, they won't walk down a hall past uniformed policemen to the office of Policewoman Kate O'Connor. They'll be coming in to see their friend, Kate O'Connor. ... In my time I have met all kinds of people and listened to all kinds of stories. . . . I have never been shocked at anything. ... I never think of myself as judge. . . . Please remember, you aren't coming to a police officer. My files will always be locked. I will talk to you alone. . . . It's so easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chronicle's Kate | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...asked why they did not take off their clothes. Both pleaded bashfulness. "It's like taking your first plunge. Once you're in, there's nothing to it," explained Fred Topel, manager of the establishment. Mr. Barr and Miss Brady remained clothed. Someone gave the policewoman a chair so that she could watch 20 minutes of ordinary calisthenics. After that "both men and women went into the pool entirely unclothed and swam about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal Nudism | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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