Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Peggy Anne and Herbert III ranged themselves before the microphones, pulled the tail of a big white collie but flatly refused to talk. Finally their grandmother stepped in to help the baffled cameramen, asked the children what they wanted for Christmas. Herbert III listed his desires: a policeman's uniform, badge and club, a wagon and a "train engine-a big one." Peggy Anne wanted "a very big doll," several smaller ones and a wagon. Their six-month-old sister Joan, who had arrived in Washington in the arms of Nursemaid Florence Gehlke (see cut) was not brought...
...letter "s" from the Poe monument in Wyman Park Baltimore (TIME, June 16). The statement that I did the work under cover of darkness is false, as I did it an hour before dark, and with five men looking on-all of whom approved except one, who called a policeman. I did not pay much attention to the error in your magazine until recently, when rumors and stories have been circulated about me as a prowler in the dark, and with many versions. Most of them are humorous, but some are malicious, and they are very discreditable...
...Mahaned. Twice rejected were Ahmed's marriage offers; he led a mob against Zobaide's father; she was accidentally shot. Uncle Sam Mahaned vowed vengeance on Ahmed, hunted him relentlessly across Europe, across the Atlantic, tracked him down in Union Station, Cleveland, Ohio. Then he called a policeman...
Home to Brooklyn from the bull rings of Spain last week went Sidney Franklin (né Frumkin), matador extraordinary. All the world knows that he, a policeman's son, left Flatbush to study painting in Mexico and there learned the bullfighter's art from Master Matador Rodolfo Gaona; that in Spain he has slain 50 bulls for the bravos and pesetas of the populace (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929; March 24). But at his homecoming his friends and managers did not leave his fame to chance. To build him into a sure-fire vaudeville attraction, they arranged an impression...
...Bill Robinson, famed Negro tap-dancer, was leaving a Pittsburgh hotel, he heard a woman scream that she had been robbed. Dancer Robinson gave chase to the fleeing thief, fired into the air with a small gold-plated revolver (gift of New York's police department). A policeman heard the report, did not see the thief, did see Robinson running, fired at and wounded him in the arm. The thief escaped. At the hospital Robinson complimented the policeman on his alertness...