Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...indeed, the prize-giving season. Outside the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, a policeman remarked to the driver of a Radio Diffusion Franchise truck that he had sensed a new vitality in French literature this year...
...tried to understand what might have to be done. Russia-apparently in all U.S. minds-was the real villain, the real and terrible foe. Said Detroit Salesman Zacharias Cosmas: "Hit the main Bolsheviks. The tail won't bite if you hit the head." Said New Orleans Policeman Ernest F. Curtis: "We should declare war on Russia officially and then drop all the A-bombs we can on her." But most people didn't talk that...
...another startling story to tell. One Leon Bishop, a gambler, had told George that he was sent by Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren to Hialeah to take over crap games, roulette wheels and all gambling except horse racing. George said that Bishop walked in last December when Policeman George was helping to raid a gambling joint in Hialeah. Bishop went to the telephone. Five minutes later, George related, he was called to the telephone himself and told by another gambler to "get the hell out of there" because Leon Bishop was a close friend of the governor. Governor...
...case any of New York City's 19,000 cops should be planning to do their Christmas shopping early, the city's mustachioed new Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy last week warned against an old coppers' custom. He would fine, suspend, fire or prosecute any policeman caught, as three captains were last year, soliciting gratuities, handing out lists of expected presents from saloon and store owners on the beat or for that matter, even accepting gifts...
Redemption is marred by the Dostoevskian notion that a true spiritual rebirth can come only after a great sin; consequently, its characters hazily confuse forgiveness of Kavanagh's crime with left-handed apologies for it. When a policeman speaks with horror of Kavanagh's "cold knife," Father Mellowes blandly replies that the knife "was not so cold as your justice"-which seems to suggest that, for Stuart, morality can be measured with a thermometer. Like his character, Ezra, Stuart wants brotherhood but in a typically Irish mood has no good word for humility. If men can find grace...