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From preaching "the faith," at the start, he went on to conduct a hate campaign directed against Jews, Protestants, and the Catholic hierarchy in Boston. His sermons on the Common were often broken by violence, and a prowl car put an "amen" on many closing prayers...
...splotch of Cambridge green where you seldom see the policeman's blue. That is Cambridge Common. Since most policemen are cruising the city in their cozy cars and the others are patroling such arcas as East Cambridge and Central Square, the Common has no watchman. Police say the prowl cars scan the streets and beat-men guard business establishments. They ask: Why patrol Grass...
Both Pereira and Beveridge were picked up later, as they stopped to watch the first three defendants being herded to a prowl car. Pereira admitted to saying, a propos of a bent-over officer. "What a tempting target that would make...
Once again, the U.S. had passed through that heady season when national blood pressure shoots up, politicians talk like fishwives, red-eyed poll takers are on the prowl, civil war rages at the dinner table, and the uninitiated observer concludes that the Union cannot endure much longer. Once again, the U.S. had survived...
...high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...