Word: copping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church. But he writes neither in sorrow nor in anger and achieves not so much a traditional novel as a rather special entertainment, with intellectual vaudeville acts now and then stopping the story cold. In the end, the Identity CIub breaks up in unseemly haste when a cop drops in for a look around. The blazing, devilish farce is over, a nightmare so cleverly contrived and keenly written that the reader who looks only for the great fun in it will miss some of modern fiction's sharpest comments on the human condition...
...Indianapolis family held prisoner in its own home by three escaped convicts who are ready to do anything, and the worse the better, to avoid capture. The leader of the gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed by the brain of a badly brought-up six-year...
...asked a cop...
Advance Scout. In Indianapolis, Harley J. Driskell got 60 days in jail and a $77.75 fine after he sat in his car off a highway, held up a sign that warned passing motorists of a radar speed trap ahead, ran into a cop who approached to flush him from his post...
Wishful Drinking. In Keokuk, Iowa, Wilbur Damon, 27, was sentenced to three days in jail after he phoned police from a saloon, asked the cop who arrived to go tell his wife that he was sober...