Word: copping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite a different matter for a team to cop the intercollegiate title from a field of some 37 colleges. It isn't perfect balance that counts there. If it were, Eddie Farrell could get a bit of sleep some of these nights...
These balmy spring days are not without their worries for the cop in his booth on Harvard Square. If you should ever happen to look at him around ten o'clock on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays, you will see lines of worry and annoyance distorting his sturdy brow. True, is only the appearance of a litte brown Ford on the horizon which disturbs his poise; but in it is Professor Ballantine on his way to a class...
...line with Mayor Russell's economy program, all Cambridge's forces of law and order are being centralized in Central Square. At present all records have been cleared out of the aged and decrepit cop-cage and no more men report there; one man only works in the musty interior taking care of the call-box reports, and as soon as wiring to Central Square is installed he too will be withdrawn, and the edifice left for a pussy-cat's hunting ground...
...rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...
...greatness so familiar to the leading actors and actresses of the past century. The trouble with the modern actor is that he has been inadvertently cast into a mold, from which it is practically impossible for him to escape. It can be summed up in one phrase 'once a cop, always a cop.' He does a part fairly well once and he has to play that type for the rest of his life. In the old days there were less actors so a beginner had to learn the art of playing a variety of roles. When he was called...