Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Object Lesson. In Montreal, Night Watchman Emmanuel Dame explained to police how three robbers had been able to take him by surprise: he had been absorbed in a crime magazine...
Elevator operators have their ups and downs, but Leo Shean, night watchman at Lamont for the last year and a half, has had a never-ending struggle to protect the library from the curious. It's been a real challenge...
Hatch, armed with his letter of recommendation, stuck with it to the last, then got a job as a night watchman in a hotel. For old times' sake, he whittled while he worked. In the 1890s, he got a notion to carve decorations for his own house and barn. He did them for fun until he died in 1935, lavishing on the job all his training and skill, and using his hundred woodworking tools...
...people working under me in the West Punjab. Because of that man, I now work as a watchman for one rupee, eight annas [45?] a day. Now that man is dead, but what about...
...Bank of Indo-China. With a departing Paris-Algiers plane drowning out their noise, three men had broken into the shed after midnight, heaved three kegs of the gold into a small sedan and driven away. Most memorable figure in the drama, though scarcely its hero, was Watchman Jean Quiniou, who arrived on the scene just as the men were driving off. "Had I been two minutes earlier," Watchman Quiniou pointed out philosophically, "they might have killed...