Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other death was added to the toll of 19 when it was learned later that the watchman on the barge had been knocked into the sea by the collision. For Boston's fishing fleet it was the worst disaster since the foundering of the schooner Eleanor Nicker son, in 1932, when 22 men drowned in the stormy north Atlantic...
...Society is itself not without a trace of snobbery. The strongest curse the authors place on the magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders." And when...
Diplomats, military men, economists, production bosses; capital, labor-all were ready for orders. The night was drawing on; the lights were out. The U. S. was asking Franklin Roosevelt: Watchman, what of the night? Politics was dead as ever politics can be. A dying Congress frittered and fidgeted, eagerly awaiting decent burial and January's rebirth. The U. S. promised Franklin Roosevelt the moon and sixpence, if only...
Rendering the night watchman powerless and working with scientific exactitude, tape measures, and gasoline, they measured out and then burned the initials of their alma mater in the midfield greensward...
...books. When a certain number of books have been dropped into the chute, a photo electric cell connection is broken, lowering the floor of the container so as to make room for more volumes. After about 75 books have collected in the container, an automatic alarm summons the night watchman...