Word: copping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When one yard cop, who attempted to "break it up, boys!" was bleed down, he called one of his cohorts. The Puritans on the roof thereupon threw gallons of water on them...
Biggest fear of the Major's since the start, especially in hard times, has been that professionals might begin palming themselves off as simon-pures. But 30 years in and around the theatre have taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...
...Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...
...Harvard in 1936, Dartmouth in 1937, Yale by a mile last year; and to round things out it is a brilliant Cornell aggregation that is favored to cop the fourth annual Quadrangular track meet in the Boston Garden tonight...
Just as they had finished their masterpiece, a Yard cop inquired, "What do you think you are going to do, put Radcliffe on that?" The issue was finally settled when the law enforcers insisted they had to destroy the young lady because her creators did not have a permit for their project...