Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon the night watchman discovered R. M. C.'s loss. In his nightshirt the College bugler turned out 470 G. C.'s (gentlemen cadets) in their nightshirts. An officer barked out the rollcall. No cadet was missing, none showed marks of cannon-poaching. The 470 were sent back to bed. R. M. C. officers scratched their heads, reflected that Broadmoor Asylum for criminal lunatics is near Sandhurst...
...employes to join a "union," pay a $10 initiation fee and $2 monthly dues from each man's wages. Refusal brings attempts to lure away his patrons, violence to himself and cars. The racket is spreading rapidly. In Brooklyn last week four thugs tied up a garage watchman, rolled him under an automobile, slashed the upholstery of ten cars...
Died. Frank Clinton Smythe, 59, night watchman at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania R. R. station. Princeton 1894 valedictorian, able civil engineer who chose watchman work instead of unemployment; of injuries when beaten by unidentified hoodlums while on duty; in Philadelphia. Said Mrs. Smythe, cousin of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam: "We are proud...
...Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport, L. I. On the day The Flying Family left New York, Green Mountain Boy took off from Barre. It was refueled at Harbor Grace, N. F., roared out over the Atlantic with fuel enough for 37 hours. Two days passed, three days, four days...
...Deep Pond and September, Agnes Leindorffs The Sketch Class and a marine by William Ritchell. A fortnight ago someone stole the Institute's Study of a Nude by the late William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. The Institute's secretary said that though it could not afford a night watchman, no one had ever taken anything before...