Word: watchmen
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There can be no argument with the proposition that Harvard must have some body of raying watchmen to protect University property and it is natural that it be placed in the same department with the janitors and goodies. The flaw in the system is that these watchmen have followed police practice and turned in suspects to their immediate superior; in this case, Mr. Apted. And there has been no consideration given to the obvious fact that an efficient head caretaker will not necessarily be a suitable person to handle student disciplinary problems...
...vanished from an automobile owned by Walter E. O'Hara, operator of prosperous Narragansett Racing Park. Because his wife Cle dearly loved the dog, Operator O'Hara boomed over his park loudspeakers that afternoon an offer of $250 for Sox's return, sent 100 ushers, watchmen, clerks, grooms out to scour the neighborhood. When they returned emptyhanded, Operator O'Hara upped his reward to $1,000 alive. He bought space in Providence, Boston and other New England newspapers to announce his loss & offer. He hired time on Providence radio stations. He had poles, trees, fences plastered...
Septuagenarian Henry Holiday Timken, Canton's No. 1 citizen, lives in baronial splendor in his Canton home, is sometimes called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Around his estate is a high iron fence guarded by watchmen who question all who attempt to enter. Deaf, Mr. Timken expresses himself in curious ways. On his office floor is a fine thick carpet. It is said that when something displeases him, he stalks the floor scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence...
Under cover of the ensuing darkness highly organized criminal gangs held all London in a spell of fear. The only protection against them was a handful of aged watchmen who were primarily interested in keeping out of harm's way. In the suburbs there weren't even watchmen, and to get, an unarmed coach into the city after dark was almost a miracle...
While the University parking lot is centrally located, fenced in, and supplied with watchmen, only a substantial reduction in the monthly rate will make it financially worthwhile to students. Despite Mr. Durant's opinion to the contrary, students do not consider their ownership of automobiles so much of a luxury that they can afford to pay the fifty per cent more a month for the privilege of keeping their cars on the University lot. For other students, to whom the rate is unimportant, the space...