Word: watchmen
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...Billancourt, just outside Paris, the rows of shops of the Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault had been shut down for nine days. Baggy trousered watchmen, caped gendarmes paraded warily 'about the works. At street corners and at the cafes of the workers' quarter morose workers in felt derbies, flattened peaked caps or black sailor straws, harangued one another. They wanted an immediate raise of 20% in wages. The company was willing to advance only 10%. Impasse. Many a worker regretted the quietude of last May Day, on which in past years workers had demonstrated their discontents...
...Manhattan, two bandits forced their way into a garage, abducted two Negro night watchmen, stole 250 cases of chewing...
Search. "At every exit door are watchmen who scrutinize each man as he leaves; if he carries a lunch kit, it is lifted and shaken; every soiled apron or shop coat carried out for laundry is felt and squeezed; also men's pockets that look rather bulky are felt to make sure that a radiator or fender is not concealed therein...
...graduates, are peculiarly responsible, because they have been furnished above others with the means of forming opinions by ascertaining the facts on which they should be based, and by considering them from an abstract, and hence a detached, point of view. Such men are in a real sense the watchmen of the people, for if they see the evil coming and give not warning, the blood of the people who suffer should be required at their hand: and not less should it be required when they have failed to see it after receiving the privilege of education that should have...
Musing about books for the North American Review, a reviewer bethought her of Flapdragon. Said she: ". . . . has the game gone out of fashion with seasonable snow, brown bowls of ale with roasted crabs in 'em, and night-watchmen, and the life of the great country houses. . . .? We used to play Flapdragon, I remember, as it drew to midnight, while we waited for the bells of the New Year. On the polished table in the dining-room was placed the biggest dish in the house, a crackled, oven-browned, blue-and-white Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle...