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No Roman author we know of has ever described the after-hours life of lictors, but it’s more than likely that when they dumped the scourging rods and the axe behind the hall door of an evening and went out for a snifter with the boys, lictors were as jolly, likeable chaps as New York policemen off duty. So are A.P.M.s, into whose habits and customs we have recently made further research.. Like many other people, we got a wrong impression of A.P.M.s in the last war. They don’t really enjoy telling the waiter to murmur politely in your ear that they’d like a word with you in the vestibule, and if y° u up injured or rough it grieves them intensely. Further, yon will admit—if you knew them in 1914-18—they're much more broadminded nowadays.— I). B. Wyndhara Lewis, in ‘ The Bystander.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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142COPS Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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