Police Parlance (1946) & The Whole Shmear (1946)

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I was looking for "schmear" and found these, whole and half.


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
Police Parlance
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Dec 15, 1946. p. SM16 (1
page)

Banker: payoff man of a numbers racket pool.

Blow, take a powder: to skip town.

Canned case: an incident not entered in a policeman's book.

Coffee sergeant: station house ahnger-on who runs errands, such as getting
coffee for patrolmen.

Collar: arrest.

Contract: favor, such as "fixing" a ticket.

Dip: a pickpocket.

Heist (corruption of _hoist_): theft.

Lammister: fugitive, from _on the lam_.

Lush workers: one who "rolls" drunks for their money.

Persuader: blackjack or other weapon.

Pie wagon: the patrol wagon.

Pokey: jail.

Rap: criminal charge.

Roscoe: firearm that can be concealed on person.

Sap (v.t.): to strike with a blackjack.

Schmear: case of little consequence; minor complaint.

Scratch: mention of detective or policeman in newspaper; also, money.

Shill: a confidence man's assistant.

Signal 32: radio warning that a man is armed.

Singer: an informer or stool pigeon; also, _canaru_, _whistler_.

Skylarker: suspicious character.

Skins: dollars.

Snowbird: a drug addict.

Sparrow cop: policeman in trouble with superiors and assigned to Central Park
to guard the grass.

Squeak: complaint.

Stash: to hide.

Tail (v.t.): to follow a suspect.

Thirty-two: period of thirty-two hours off duty (usually comes every six
days).

Tin: any badge of office; also, _potsy_.

Two-finger: to pick a pocket.

Well-heeled: armed.

IRVING R. LORWIN.



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 Citizen Advertiser     Tuesday, March 24, 1964 Auburn, New York
...THE WORLD HOW GBEAT KIPS UP THE SHMEAR THE POLICE ARE PROPPING 1 HAVETO..

   Indiana Evening Gazette  Saturday, June 01, 1963 Indiana, Pennsylvania
...LIFE GONE POOF WHAT CXiUSEDTHlS SHMEAR TVOU HAD ANYWAY? TIME FOR THE..

 News Journal   Sunday, February 18, 1968 Mansfield, Ohio
...a whimsical director, up into a big ;SHMEAR. The board of governors
vetoed..

 Lima News  Thursday, May 09, 1968 Lima, Ohio
...Then, too, I'm a big nivea boy. I 'SHMEAR' the stuff all over my face..

 Post Crescent  Sunday, February 18, 1968 Appleton, Wisconsin
...director, "built up into a big SHMEAR." The board of governors vetoed..

   Gettysburg Times     Saturday, July 13, 1946 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
...His face some more: hind this whole SHMEAR. Rsd, was a working
arrangement..

   Appleton Post Crescent   Thursday, November 03, 1938 Appleton, Wisconsin

...will be offered 3 I in schafskopf and SHMEAR. 14 I New high school New
London..

13 July 1946, GETTYSBURG TIMES (PA), pg. 7, col. 6:
"Behind this whole schmear, Red, was a working arrangement to seek out
America's trouble center."


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   Appleton Post Crescent   Monday, January 15, 1923 Appleton, Wisconsin
...hundred and to Mrs. Bertha Craig in SCHMEAR. Entirely out of the beaten
path..


   Appleton Post Crescent   Tuesday, October 26, 1926 Appleton, Wisconsin
...o'clock. Five hundred, "scbafkopf and SCHMEAR will form entertainment
together..

   Appleton Post Crescent   Monday, April 04, 1927 Appleton, Wisconsin
...consolation by Clarence Birmingham. In SCHMEAR high scoro was awarded to..


       Appleton Post Crescent   Wednesday, December 19, 1928 Appleton,
Wisconsin
...Bridge, five hundred, bunco and SCHMEAR will be played. Mr. and Mrs. C..

   Appleton Post Crescent   Tuesday, February 26, 1929 Appleton, Wisconsin
...card games including SCHMEAR anJ schafkopf, were played and.....of the
hostess. Five tables of SCHMEAR were in play. Mr. and Mrs..

   Appleton Post Crescent   Friday, November 04, 1938 Appleton, Wisconsin
...and Mrs. Sandy Cousins. Schafskopf and SCHMEAR were played and prizes in
the.....Schroeder and Charles Hiddc; in SCHMEAR to Victor and Norman
Handschke..

 Coshocton Tribune  Wednesday, December 15, 1965 Coshocton, Ohio
...against 65 percent of the whole SCHMEAR. Trib pub crawling editor Bob..

 News Journal   Thursday, December 16, 1965 Mansfield, Ohio
...against 65 per cent of the whole SCHMEAR. Natalie Wood's leading man..

 Playground Daily News  Monday, December 04, 1967 Fort Walton Beach, Florida

...could get through the whole SCHMEAR in 20 days, but more..

News Journal    Thursday, February 22, 1968 Mansfield, Ohio
...credited: they've taken over the whole SCHMEAR Imagine the hackling due
Jack E..

 Coshocton Tribune  Thursday, March 28, 1968 Coshocton, Ohio
...Pa isnT, with us any longer. The whole SCHMEAR cherry rhubarb sauce,
salad..

 Syracuse Herald Journal    Tuesday, June 11, 1968 Syracuse, New York
...in Kent. I needn't tell you the whole SCHMEAR was constantly at the card..


 Playground Daily News  Tuesday, January 07, 1969 Fort Walton Beach, Florida
...fall practice starts and the whole SCHMEAR starts all over agian. And
the..

   Chronicle Telegram   Saturday, June 09, 1973 Elyria, Ohio
...teaching what she terms "the whole SCHMEAR" of beginning psychology. "As
a..

 Syracuse Herald Journal    Tuesday, November 18, 1975 Syracuse, New York

...Adath Yeshtirun. NEW YORK The whole SCHMEAR will benefit the Mar- tha
Graham..

 Lima News  Sunday, February 24, 1974 Lima, Ohio
...is garbage leftovers" that arc a real "SCHMEAR" to wrap and scrap. Get her
out..

 Lima News  Saturday, February 23, 1974 Lima, Ohio
...is garbage leftovers that arc a .real "SCHMEAR" to wrap and scrap. Get her
out..

 Daily Times    Thursday, October 26, 1972 Salisbury, Maryland
...Own Summer Sausage Calves Liverwurst (SCHMEAR) German Style Bierwurst..

 Sheboygan Press    Tuesday, June 12, 1973 Sheboygan, Wisconsin
...Hayward, teaching what she terms whole SCHMEAR of j beginning psychology.
a..

 Daily Kennebec Journal     Wednesday, September 29, 1971 Augusta, Maine
...said sadly. "Before you launch any big SCHMEAR on 'power to the you had
better..