Word: watchmen
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Upon thy walls, 0 Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, all the day and all the night: they shall never hold their peace...
Except for an occasional greeting which he extends to the African ape as he patrols the halls of the University Museum, Andrew Collins, one of the College's night watchmen, doesn't find much excitement in the way of burglaries, riots, or fires during the midnight hours...
Toward evening we arrive at a glass factory. The entrance is heavily guarded. Severely examining our documents, they remind me of Red Guards in 1918. Inside we see the director, firemen, watchmen and members of the factory workers' guard. Though machine tools have been evacuated, the workshop remains; guarding it are elderly men who have given their best years to the factory...
Long before last week the Treasury bond campaign had become one of the liveliest phenomena of the American scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes...
...radio critics, a "corps of watchmen" he hopes to see arise, he points out a few things to watch for. One is anything like a repetition of the smear campaign that used radio-advertising technique to defeat Upton Sinclair eight years ago in California. Another is the "tendency of some radio programs to spoon-feed the nation on intellectual mush almost entirely deficient in every vitamin necessary to a healthy populace capable of sustaining democracy...