Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of Harvard's gowned seniors as they parade by John Harvard's statue in the Yard each commencement marches a solemn, gimlet-eyed figure, blocking off photographers' lenses from the graduating class. It is Charles Robert ("Colonel Charlie") Apted, Harvard's head "Yard cop." Charlie dearly loves to march in this parade: He also loves Harvard. Last week was one of mixed emotions for Charlie Apted. In Harvard's paneled old Memorial Hall 600 Harvardmen dined & wined him, the Harvard Glee Club sang Behold the Lord High Executioner and photographers' lenses blinked again...
Condon will push George Dana and Chet Sagenkahn to the limit in the dive; Milligan and Shea might cop a second and third in the backstroke behind Art Bosworth; and Pincombe will take the butterfly event hands down...
John Henry performed his feats as though they were vaudeville acts. The music rose & fell, ebbed & flowed, without seeming to come from the hearts of the black people who sang it. Crowds moved sheeplike about the stage as though at the bidding of a traffic cop. Even Robeson could not save the situation. He could not carry on his back 800 pounds of bad play...