Word: copping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elements of business have been growing more hostile to your Administration is a fact too obvious to be classed as news. So long as this hostility emanated from financial racketeers, public exploiters and the sinister forces spawned by special privilege, it was of slight importance. No crook loves a cop. But any experienced reporter will tell you that throughout the country many business men who once gave you sincere support are now not merely hostile, they are frightened...
...still have my two dollars, my driving license, and my reputation for sobriety. Greater love hath no cop. (Name withheld by request...
...route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection...
...arrainged the next morning for tresspassing and was let go on the promise that if I was caught again the fine would be $25.00. I figured I would take a chance again. I would go to the Dunster House where I had never seen a cop in the whole Dunster House yard except at the entrance of G where stood a cops room I entered from the Charles River gate and went into entry and through a passageway which brought to entry B the most deserted place in the Yard I opend B and there stood the same cop that...
...Angeles, acquired a fine house, and Crazy Jack kept a stableful of Indian ponies. They lived comfortably on the $2,500 a month alloted him by the Government. Crazy Jack was contented. His chief pleasure was standing on the curb before the house, pretending to be a traffic cop and holding up his hand at automobiles. The only disruption of his last days occurred in March when the Government finally got a court to annul his marriage. That meant little to him, however, for the Lowe woman stayed on as his housekeeper...