Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deeper Knowledge. "In a moment of such alarm," said Leroux to his sergeant, "the experienced police officer allows himself the luxury of noticing more important things, which may deepen his knowledge of the country. For instance," and Leroux's arm swung this way & that, pointing, "the little men who are not the little husbands coming quickly from the little houses, and that blonde number from the bar hurrying from behind the hedge. But quick! We have practically not a moment to lose...
...next three weeks Low was up at daybreak, banging away at the Premier - always with the same result. Groza, a wilful old man who had to win, brought his own umpire, a burly sergeant of the security police with an outsize Luger on his hip. If Low aced the Premier, he was "Not ready. Serve again." If Groza's return hit three feet outside the baseline, the sergeant would give Low a stern look, toggle his holster and grunt: "Goot!" And no matter where Low's ball hit, if the Premier couldn...
...Sergeant York named his son after his old C.O., once remarked: "I was kinder surprised at his knowledge of the Bible...
Graves was not obsessed with Her when he wrote his earlier poems and historical novels (I, Claudius, Sergeant Lamb's America). But last year he published an erudite mythological study of Her nature and origins (The White Goddess-TIME, Sept. 6) which packed such a punch that even poised Poet T. S. Eliot sagged at the knees, gasping: "Prodigious, monstrous, stupefying, indescribable." Graves has exhorted his fellow artists to wake up to the fact that the Goddess (who represents for him Nature, and the mysteries of birth, love and death...
Precept & Example. In Cincinnati, Artist Paul Bogosian, drawing cartoons at a safety show, stepped back to admire his work, fell off the platform. In Watertown, N.Y., Police Sergeant Floyd W. Trickey, on his way to deliver a lecture on "Safety and Accident," dropped the hundred-pound bundle of safety pamphlets he was carrying and cut his hand on the metal binding...