"Finest" and "Bravest" revisited

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

> Finest=police and Bravest=firefighters, but what pray tell is New York's
> Boldest?

I think these are correction officers.

Fred Shapiro


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