Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mobile Unit. In Kansas City, Traffic Cop John R. Duncan watched agape as a motorist drove through a busy intersection while shaving with a battery-driven electric razor...
Inner Man. In Manhattan, Jesse Blades, in happy retirement after 20 years as a cop, saw a police signal box, obeyed his impulse, got a court reprimand for shouting "vile and abusive language" into...
Snappy Answer. In Salt Lake City, Traffic Cop J. H. Simonsen asked a woman driver why she was veering all over the place, for reply was handed the snapped-off steering wheel...
...Some time during the evening his eye lit on a lovely actress from the State Theater and he asked to drive her home. The girl accepted, but before they had gone far she had a change of heart and jumped out of his car, yelling for help. As a cop or two ran up, Clerk Ruess sighed at the wonder of woman and drove...
Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...