Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a movie which is almost worth sitting through. Its title, "Butch Minds the Baby," should man something. It concerns a gangster, Broderick Crawford, who is reformed by minding a baby, and a cop, Dick Foran, who is a bit too faithful to his part. Faning Virginia Bruce fades in and out occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable...
Repentant. In Seattle, police received $2 from a follower of Father Divine who wrote that she repented having talked a cop out of a parking ticket. She signed herself "Beautiful Lily...
Andrew Baggaley, of Shaker Heights, Ohio and Hollis Hall, swept through the Freshman ping-pong tournament without losing a single game to cop the championship last week. Baggaley defeated John White of Andover and Weld Hall in three straight games to take the final match and the title...
Enormous Al Blozis (Georgetown) holds the world's indoor shot-put record (57 ft. ¼ in.). But enormous Jack Torrance (former Louisiana cop) is holder of the outdoor record...
...armed with a shotgun stamped out on his front porch and exhorted his colleagues to march through. A news photographer tried to take his picture, but another Negro smacked him down in the snow. Young Negroes cracked up concrete blocks into pieces of nice throwing size. Bricks felled a cop, hit a white woman. Negroes tried to drive one truck through the line. The white men swarmed forward. Mounted cops had to use tear gas. A score were carried to the hospital, more than 100 were hustled off to jail...