Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assignment of traditional Strategist Rundstedt over ambitious Tactician Rommel, who was once a Nazi cop, London observers thought they could see a victory for the German General Staff over Adolf Hitler's military intuitions and his party followers. They also agreed that it was probably a sound decision...
...Derby. The three-year-old, owned by Warren Wright of Chicago (Calumet Baking Powder), had shown only so-so form in winning three of seven previous starts, wns ailing a week before the Derby. A week after that event Pensive, again with Jockey Conn McCreary up, breezed through to cop the Preakness. Next week Pensive, McCreary and Jones are favored to take the Belmont Stakes and the second Triple Crown* of U.S. horse racing for Ben Jones...
Oldtime Keystone Cop Eddie Cline, who directed The Ghost Catchers, had a bright idea too. Olsen & Johnson got their first whiff of it when they bounced onto the stage, discovered their 200 pals down front all reading newspapers and completely ignoring the show. A minute later chorines ran up & down the aisles shrieking, "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about the Chaplin trial...
...psychotics were in the courtroom. As the Lonergan trial got under way-Novelist James Thomas Farrell (The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) was having trouble with the Manhattan police. His publisher (Vanguard Press) was visited by four different parties of cops who professed to see a connection between Wayne Lonergan and Studs Lonigan. Later a cop from a prowl car tried shyly to buy a copy of the novel from a First Avenue bookshop. It was out of stock...
Irrepressible, indefatigable Henry J. Kaiser is fixing to cop the first postwar contract in the shipbuilding industry. The contract: 30 diesel cargo ships designed for the Netherlands East Indies coastwise trade. The production schedule: building to begin "long before" year's end. Henry and the Dutch, equally shrewd, figured the ships could be used for war cargoes before the Jap is licked, and certainly right after he is thrown out of the Indies...