Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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National guardsmen are here at small stipends to the neglect of their business concerns. Policeman are staying on their jobs, in the face of disfavor of friends and associates, and the risk that, should the deserting corps by any chance be restored they would be subjects of petty persecution, just as the conservatives were in the station houses before the strike began. These loyal policemen have played an heroic part. They deserve well of the community. Boston Herald...
...with your control of yourself. It is right. It can be defended. Prohibition has to do with your control by others. It is wrong and has no defense. Temperance is self-imposed and self-enforced; Prohibition is imposed by others against your will, and enforced with a policeman's club. You can no more promote pure temperance by force than you can make love with a brickbat. Prohibition is insulting to your manhood, because it denies to you the right of self-determination...
...second play, by Hubert Osborne, Sp., holder of the MacDowell Fellowship in Dramatic Composition, is entitled "The Readjustment," and the arrangement of characters is: Kid, R. H. Owen uL Red, W. Butterfield uC Nolan, S. M. Crocker '21 Lefty, E. Massey Joe, R. Winternith 2G Policeman, E. Kiernan '18 Mabel, Mrs. Massey...
...cast of "The Simms-Vane Incident," written by J. E. Pillot Sp., is as follows: Miller, the Hawk, W. G. Stetson Lucille, his accomplice, Doris Halman 1G Miss Jones, Margaret Carver, 1918 Mrs. Simms-Vane, Christine Hayes Police Inspector, N. S. Wolf '19 Garrity, a policeman, M. E. Curti...
...Said--and She Believed Him" is a long, complicated name for a short and rather familiar type of play. We can all remember "Stop Thief," "Officer 666" and others which do not contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...