Word: sergeanting
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...that the best thing the town's star reporter (Allyn Joslyn) can think of to do when he drops inat police headquarters after writing his parade story, is to sit down in a patrol car and take a nap. His nap is interrupted when the telephone on the sergeant's desk begins to ring. It is the janitor in the Buxton Building, stammering out the astounding news that Mary Clay has just been brutally murdered...
Bottle after bottle of Scotch whiskey was emptied as Edinburgh settled down to its biggest party in years. For Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore, her homecoming was a triumph. As she reviewed ex-service men, 84-year-old ex-Sergeant George Alexander greeted her with a rich burr: "You're a bonnie lassie. I wish I'd courted you mysel...
...Afghan border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked...
...Sergeant Lyons: I don't know. He may be drawing his handkerchief...
...Sergeant Lyons: We have left-handed policemen...