Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several days the wires hummed merrily about millions. Then suddenly jovial Dr. Hilferding was jerked up short by brusque Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank. A watchman of Germany's cash drawer, Dr. Schacht barked that he would not O.K. the loan. Scareheads in the Berlin press screamed that Dr. Hilferding would have to resign because now his budget would not balance. There were predictions that the Cabinet was due to fall...
...Bang!" went the watchman's gun. The tombstone fell to the ground and a sheet dropped off the shoulders of one Salvador Espinosa...
...Correcto," said the watchman, "but the ghosts in Dolores go 'swish-swish,' never 'woof-woof,' therefore I shoot...
...Atlantic City, Patrolman Clifton Mann fired three shots at an injured dog. The first hit the right leg of one Clarence Beckett, railroad watchman. The second hit the dog, failed to kill it. The third hit the right leg of one Paul Robbins, coal and ice merchant. A motorcycle policeman arrived, shot...
...Dolores Cemetery, Tacubaya, Mexico, a white ghost made off with a tombstone, was surprised by a grave watchman...