Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loose ends after the war, he trekked west to San Francisco and took a job as watchman at the U.S. mint. On the side, he read Gibbon and Pope, minted an acrid style of his own. In 1867, he managed to get a grisly romantic poem published in the Californian, and from then on journalism, more accurately, invective journalism, was his business...
...hair-raising climb on a 30-foot ladder brought them to the tower's second level, where they repeated the operation on four more bulbs. Lowell House officials knew nothing about the affairs until the night watchman turned the lights on in honor of Lowell's opera, "Amadis...
...Good Night. In South Bend, Ind., a thief slugged the caretaker of a social club, lifted $1,850 from the safe, paused in his flight to put a pillow under the fallen night watchman's head and give him a double shot of whisky from the club's supply...
Saville has been the victim of unknown tappings on windows late at night, while the night watchman at Briggs complained that two girls were continually leaving their shades raised...
...Christmas morning, Night Watchman Andrew Hislop, long used to such sounds, came upon a startling sight: there were marks on the carpet indicating that a heavy object had been dragged down the altar steps, through the transept, past the memorial to Dryden and the graves of Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson, to a side door near the Poets' Corner. Hislop rushed to a phone, called the police. "The Stone is gone," he cried, "the coronation Stone...