Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passengers who returned to the U. S. last week on the S. S. Belgenland treasured, among souvenirs of a world cruise, copies of a leaflet handed to each of them by courteous white-gloved Tokyo policemen...
Boston is at it again. A few years ago a board of burly policemen "laboriously read and censured" Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." This expedition won the ancient city a renewal of its already venerable fame. But it seems this was not sufficient, or at least the action was not rabid enough. This time "Candide", Voltaire's great philosophical novel has been seized by the Collector of the Port. The immortal work has been arraigned on the charge of "obscenity and obscurity." (Of course, it will surprise no one that M. Voltaire has been found obscure by such gentry...
Meanwhile nurses and others, many partly clothed, fled from the two main exits of the building, screaming and clutching their throats. Firemen and policemen rushed to the scene. For 15 minutes they could not penetrate the fumes without gas masks...
...Helen Wills, the world's most beautiful tennis champion, was about to be presented. The crowd swarmed like bees about the Rolls-Royce (borrowed) in which Miss Wills's Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled the side curtains of the car, leaned back without disturbing the feathers in her hair, daydreamed. In the line in another car (make unnoticed) sat Miss Virginia Willys of Toledo, Ohio, daughter of Motor-maker John...
...exceedingly regrettable," said Politzerprasident Carl Zoergiebel in defense of his super-efficient policemen, "that bystanders were injured, but we must consider the viewpoint of the decent laborers who were not in the least connected with the uprising, and had the right to demand that the fire of insurrection be quenched as soon as possible." Another echo of Berlin's Bloody May Day was the reappearance in the news of Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," onetime Director of the Third International, imputed author of the defamed Zinoviev letters (later proved forgeries) which caused the downfall of Ramsay...