bobby
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Local bobby PC Howard Taylor was suspended pending an investigation.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
“It’s a visual of innocence for this girl to wear these grown-up shoes with a heel, and then pair them with these youthful bobby socks,” he explained of Dorothy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
But Schwartz told me that he sees even this kind of damage most often when people use bobby pins or small spatulas to clean their ears.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2023
“It’s hard to believe there’s bobby pins, a cap and a full head of her own hair under the wig,” McDonald said as he pointed to a photograph of LuPone wearing it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
He was too tall, even when she dutifully let him lean down to kiss her once, returning the favor as she began removing the bobby pins one by one from her hair.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
And more bobbies on the beat….and the NHS.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
More than 10,000 police officers will be on duty Monday, with London bobbies supplemented by reinforcements from all of Britain’s 43 police forces.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
They’re happier and sharper, and the rooftop concert crackles, down to McCartney ridiculing the bobbies who shut them down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Rather than stopping the prank, the bobbies simply insisted the Americans don life jackets and be accompanied by a police launch.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2016
I have heard Sir Robert Peel spoken of in words of vituperation for having introduced "peelers," now known as "bobbies," to interfere, as they said, with poor people's rights.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman
