Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss and herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
...when I bumps into this guy. He's got a flashy blue uniform on, and loads of gold braid, so I pick myself up and snap to attention, who knows, it might be an admiral. Only it's not an admiral, it's Al Roach, the Yard Cop. "They're mobilizing us," he says. "Gave us uniforms for the first time in 308 years. Don't ask me why, maybe it's protective concealment with all these Navy men in the Yard." It's all very fine, all Colonel Apted ever had man a water piston...
Good-Natured Cop. In Manhattan Traffic Patrolman Thomas P. Glennen prepared to retire, having served 27 years and issued six summonses...
...relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them...
...Tools of Policing. Thus the best effort the world has yet seen toward establishing effective international policing was rendered worthless by the two unanswered questions: Who gives the cop his orders? What kind of order: are given-or not given? These questions involve far tough er problems than do questions of the structure, mechanics and make-up of the police force itself. But the mechanical problems have most fascinated planners, and they are not to be ignored...