Word: watchman
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...flame that tempers the bright steel of your youth never die, but burn always; so that when your work is done and your long day ended, you may still be like a watchman's fire at the end of a lonely road-loved and cherished for your gracious glow by all good wayfarers who need light in their darkness and warmth for their comfort...
Cops & Robbers. In Manhattan, tired burglar went to sleep in Central Park with his swag, woke to find it gone complained to a cop, got arrested for burglary. In Indianapolis, a burglar got out of a building by calling out boldly: "Hey let me out of here!" The watchman obliged. In Kansas City, a young man who stole a truck explained to police that he had to, because the tires he had stolen a few minutes before were too heavy to carry. In Topeka, somebody stole all the buttons off Frank Coffman's closetful of clothes. In Seattle, William...
...daytime it is a fairly simple matter with all exits carefully watched and all galleries patroled. At night Rex of Gainwell takes over this responsibility. This eight-year-old German shepherd leaves his house on the back porch each evening to make the rounds with the night watchman, as did his father before...
...wave of frustration swept Lowell House after the Spring Formal Friday night resulting in the greatest library job since Snooperman ran rampant last spring. Not until night watchman Bill Graney received an anonymous phone call last evening was the picture of President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, ordinarily over the fireplace, found in the closet of an unnamed tutor...
Discovered at approximately ten minutes after nine by Billie Greney, night watchman of Lowell House the conflagration was extinguished by 9:25 o'clock. The cause is as yet undetermined, but evidence points to either a lighted cigarette butt, or, possibly to a short circuit. If it was the latter, the fire started at exactly ten of nine, since that was when Thomas's electric clock stopped...