Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grays Hall and the Yard may have booked a little decrepit after the manicured grounds of Indiana State, Smith, and Vassar. Individual bathrooms, two-room suites, and unrestricted hours made up for that, however. No matter how long you had to flick lights for a Yard Cop, it was better than facing an irate house mother at 3 o'clock in the morning...
...first-string backstop for the world-champion New York Yankees while Bill Dickey nursed a bad shoulder, Rosar was behind baseball's No. 1 plate-with $5,000 of World Series swag practically in his mitt. But Buddy, a law-abiding boy, had always wanted to be a cop in Buffalo, N.Y., his hometown. Last fortnight, on the eve of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox, Buddy Rosar shuffled off to Buffalo, where he took examinations for the police force (and where, also, his wife was about to have a baby...
Last Saturday night several Harvard students walking up Memorial Drive were suddenly chased by a group of hoodlums carrying clubs and other weapons. The students escaped into Winthrop House, but James Shine, a Yard Cop, was assaulted. According to the police records, Shine had to be "treated for bruises on back...
...another town-gown Saturday night, James Shine, a Yard Cop, was attacked and beaten by a gang near Winthrop House. Several students, according to the police report, were walking along Memorial Drive, by the river in front of the Houses, when the gang came down upon them...
When Hays led his civil-liberties parades against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City (1938), he met his match. Hays wanted Hague's police to jail him (to create an issue). Instead, a disobliging cop simply hustled him along the street. Hays "managed to blurt out: 'All right, as long as you push, I'll go.' " But there wasn't much fun in that. Hays came back a few days later to orate against Hague from the top of an automobile. It was no use. Mayor Hague was too smart to play...