Word: copping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
...sleuthing that follows takes a different and amusing turn. A Jewish cop (Sam Levene), who has been appointed by a prankish mayor to guard the consul, sees that he is in a tight place. Unless the murderer is caught at once, all the Jews in the Reich will suffer because Officer Finkelstein failed to prevent the murder. Half by bludgeoning, half by clowning, Officer Finkelstein gets the mystery solved...
When Harvard's Varsity harriers string out along the starting line of New York's five-mile Van Courtland Park course this morning they will be favored to cop top honors in the first annual Heptagonal cross-country meet...
...butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks: "What is the interval between his whistles?" Her disintegration begins when she discards her semimilitary outfit, buys the most becoming hat she can find, which looks like a horse's nose bag inverted...
...early in 1939, when Mr. Cummings retired to his rich private practice in Connecticut. No further big New Deal test cases are slated to appear before the Supreme Court before 1941. Therefore the job that Frank Murphy was left when he succeeded Mr. Cummings was substantially a cop's job, and he took to it with all the fervor of an Irish moralist, all the energy that his red hair, purposeful jaw and 46 years bespeak...