Word: cops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This volume includes Ring Lardner's stories, old and new, testifies to his long-standing importance as a reporter of the American scene. His dramatic personae, ranging from prize-fighter to debutante, cop to jazz-writer, "just folks" to "the best people," offers more complete a panorama than Sinclair Lewis. His argot, quite as accurate as Ernest Hemingway's, is never mannerism...
Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...
...costs a quarter then. Sure she still works there. Sa-ay, she's smooth! But a big boy in a Cadillac calls for her every night. No, but Al tried. He drove up in front with his Chevy one time and blew the horn until the manager got a cop. Guess he was afraid of another riot. We students just don't have any riots. Didye get that one? It's a good pun. Well, even Kitty says puns are O. K. and he's a pundit. All right. I'll shut...
...Cop (William Boyd) wins the gang-leader's girl (Jacqueline Logan), this time in a disconnected picture released perhaps too late, perhaps still soon enough to share the harvest reaped for producers by every bomb, dick, and scarey...
...minutes later the Yard Cop was saying to the janitor of Greys, "Yea, I saw him. Yea, looks just like his pichures. He wouldn't speak, his wife was with...