Word: watchman
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...trouble if he doesn't carry matches.' " 'Who's the club champion now ?' " 'Elmer Griggs. He plays a wonderful game of night golf. Never losee a ball!' "'What makes him so good?' " 'He used to be night watchman in a mothball factory...
...York at a time of great stress for me is to take advantage of my friend Dr. Stephen Wise's flattering invitation to address the American Jewish Congress,* presided over by the universally beloved Nathan Straus. I expect to deliver at Carnegie Hall a somewhat lengthy address, entitled Watchman, What of the Night? It will deal with the whole Jewish problem in the setting of the larger world problem. As the only Zionist now left in the world, I shall naturally include the situation that has arisen in Palestine from the failure of Balfour and Lloyd George...
...watchman was employed on the premises, there was no way of determining the cause, although it is thought to have originated in an electrical short circuit. The first engines arrived at midnight, and in rapid succession more came in from firehouses in Brighton in response to the third and fourth alarms...
...answer of Suslov's chief: " The watchman, Suslov, may be sent to a logging camp. He will be entitled there to a regular ration of bread and cloth, and during the Summer he will need no trousers...
...short time ago a college man missed an overcoat from an auto which he had left in front of the dormitory. On the same day a rug was taken. Both these losses were reported to the watchman, but for a week the case remained a mystery. Finally someone getting out of bed at six in the morning happened to look out of the window, and saw a boy crawling from under the building. Upon investigation the missing rug and overcoat were found stored away beneath the steps. Further investigation disclosed the fact that the boy had a home in Cambridge...