Tom Glazer

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

American Musician

Vishwajeet Pradhan

Being from a small town my parents wanted me to become an IAS officer but being an actor I lived the life of everyone. I've been a cop, a hardliner politician, a magician, a watchman, a don, a smuggler, an officer all in one life!

Indian Actor

Nancy Gibbs

Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

American Journalist

Tallulah Bankhead

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

American Actress

Rudyard Kipling

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

English Writer

William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

English Playwright

Refers to someone employed to ensure safety and prevent unauthorized access.

Professional Role

Often used to describe guards working during overnight shifts.

Nighttime Security

A watchman is expected to be consistently alert and attentive.

Vigilance Required

A watchman alerts others to dangers, not just directly intervening.

Warning Others

Stays on the lookout for potential threats or important events.

Observer

Often a watchman has a role in maintaining community safety.

Community Protector

 As traffic down the trail increased, so did the U.S. bombing. They drove at night or in the early morning to avoid air strikes, and watchmen were ready to warn drivers of enemy aircraft. Villages along the trail organized teams to guarantee traffic flow and to help drivers repair damage caused by air attacks.

The infamous and...

 Take note of those clock ends. This is a college student's suggestion for what a "four in the morning" gang sign should look like. People sent me magazine ads. They took photographs in grocery stores. I got a ton of graphic novels and comics. A lot of good quality work, "The Sandman," "Watchmen."

Rives: The Museum of...

 Yet another important effect of noise is sleep disturbance. Sleep is a very active mechanism that recuperates us and prepares us for the next wake period. A quiet bedroom is a cornerstone of what sleep researchers call "a good sleep hygiene." And our auditory system has a watchman function.

Why noise is bad for...

 He built one plant after another. He married and had two sons. He had friends in high places who assured him that he was of great value to the economy. Once, as he had left instructions to have done, he was summoned in the middle of the night by the night watchman at one of his plants.

Ben Dunlap: The...

 stripped a vehicle of its windshield wipers, its hubcaps, its sideview mirrors, any moving part they could find, at 8:30, because the watchmen were busy watching the T.V. rather than minding the store. And they scrawled on the windshield in a reference to the show's heroine,

Why nations should...

 Yet politics was never far away. Works like "Dr. Strangelove" and "Watchmen" explored the real threat of nuclear war, while "V for Vendetta" and "The Handmaid's Tale" warned how easily our rights could disappear in a crisis.

How to recognize a...

 and on his way home he was tracked by a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman who ended up shooting and killing him. To make that piece, we got the architectural drawings of the entire complex,

The Future of News?...

 When the watchmen stop her, she says she’s willing to tell her people’s secrets to the ranking general. But she isn’t actually a traitor. On her fourth day under the general’s protection,

Artemisia Gentileschi:...

 Who should be the watchmen to guard it? Visionary scientists from the early years of the nuclear age pioneered how to reliably tap the tremendous amount of energy inside an atom -

How do nuclear power...

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Watchman

Professional Role

Nighttime Security

Vigilance Required

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