Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight men from Eliot House rowed the Henley distance--d mile and 5-16--in seven minutes and 29 seconds in chilly Charles Basin at dusk yesterday to nose out the Winthrop crew by a deck length and cop the House crew championship...
Dick Powell, Hollywood's prettiest tough guy, is cast as a tinhorn gambler with a heart of pure gold. As junior partner in a plushy gambling house, he is suspected of the murder of a crooked cop (Jim Bannon) and the cop's girl (Nina Foch). Powell can take some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such...
High & Dry. In Tulsa, a woman driver put out her hand, tied up traffic for three blocks, eventually explained to a cop: "Oh, I'm not going to turn; I'm just drying my nail polish...
...everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
...shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict and whore in the Pacific Northwest...