policeman's helmet

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policeman's helmet

n
(Plants) a Himalayan balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens glandulifera, with large purplish-pink flowers, introduced into Britain
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"Having confounded my enemy," he continued, smiling, "by an embarrassing situation, a little argument, and the distant view of a policeman's helmet."
1928: A policeman's helmet and a bunch of red roses were among the pictures shown on Scottish inventor John Logie Baird's first television transmission in colour at Baird Studios, London.
1928: A policeman's helmet and a bunch of red roses were among the pictures shown on John Logie Baird's first television transmission in colour at Baird Studios, London.
One rock star - a man who sold more than 100 million records - was so taken with a policeman's helmet that he found that he incorporated it into his act.
"A serious phase was reached when a stone crashed through one of the windows, and fell upon a policeman's helmet," the Mail revealed.
A touch-judge was also reportedly man-handled and a policeman's helmet knocked off.
1928: A policeman's helmet and a bunch of red roses were among the pictures shown on John Logie Baird's first television transmission in colour at Baird Studios, London - as was a young girl called Noele Gordon, later to become a successful actress including 17 years as Meg Mortimer in TV soap Crossroads.
Whether he's working a zebra costume, a policeman's helmet, or just posing for the hell of it, he knows how to work the camera.
BATTLING Ben Baddeley gets to wear a policeman's helmet after taking his NHS campaign all the way to No10 Downing Street.
This young St Cuthbert's pupil tries a policeman's helmet for size while PC Mark Leadbitter, top, gets Serren Bullock, four, and Ebeenezer Afonne, three, on the right wavelength
The cover featured a pig wearing a policeman's helmet and cops confiscated its publicity posters.
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