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Word: copping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with the 20th Century in the shape of a zipper bag full of money and a paper bag full of sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...toughest looking member of the outfit" was not in the U. S. Service; no officer would relish making such an impression. It was an expression of thought on the part of one man during the Boston Police Strike, when he did not know that this particular motorcycle cop was a clergyman, likewise, and indicated his surprise in finding a parson armed with a .45 and doing that job. Second, while true that I have not had the honor to meet the First Citizen of this country and the most distinguished parishioner at St. Thomas' Church, you are quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...scraping acquaintance with the policeman of that village, the Harvard man suddenly decided he would die if he did not get a drink of water immediately. The car was stopped. He ran to a drinking fountain in the square, walked around it several times, stopped and stared. The paternal cop who had been observing the group for some time took him by the arm and led him slowly back to the car. "That ain't no drinking fountain, son" he said quietly. "That's a statue of Timothy Dwight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/10/1936 | See Source »

...likes to recall that some of the U. S. officers for whom he held services considered him "the toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike. He is now in his 40's, looks younger. He has not met President Roosevelt, was selected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: President's Pastor | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...cold gray dawn one day last week a wandering Yard Cop stopped by the John Harvard statue in front of University Hall. Although the moon was shining brightly, it seemed to him that the Statue was bathed a trifle too much in a white, ethereal, other-wordly light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN HARVARD ALUMINIZED IN COLD DAWN; COPS SAVE ALL | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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