Word: copse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard Yard was startled late yesterday afternoon by a daring hold-up in Matthew's Hall. Yard cops and passers-by in this vicinity were attracted by yells from a third story window in the South Entry of Matthews to "watch that door and catch him as he comes out...
Several students and a couple of Yard cops rushed up, on the alert for the dash of a fugitive, only to be greeted some moments later by the inquiring glances of students who swarmed from within. Trapped between two fires, the culprit was yet nowhere to be found.
Two young and smiling faces a-top banjos which some said had been heard in Spokane stopped beaming at the bevy of upturned faces--the Pathe news of the Leviathan--and then Bebe the inimitable, the exquisite--the comedienne is off in a cloud of dust, traffic cops, contortionists--and...
But now they were not marching any longer. Something had happened; a police sergeant had given an order, and the gap in the blue dam had been closed. The shufflers in the rear did not understand. They kept coming on. The front line stopped. The ranks behind rippled and deepened...
Rotarians were hit with snowballs. Rotarians threw snowballs. The snow came in box cars from the virgin peaks of Colorado; bathing beauties, cops, were pelted in the streets of Cleveland, warm with July sunlight; the Rotarians loosed their inhibitions by throwing it around. More inhibitions were launched in a song...