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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The gravity of the situation first became apparent Tuesday evening when Yard-cops Mortimer Mahoney, Christopher Morris, and Albert Roach sighted the Mephitis mephitida, ambling past University Hall. But it was not until the dawn brought Apted and the day force of John Connolly and James Reddin that the pursuit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colonel Apted Tops Skunk Hunt by Thrilling Murder in Yard---Corpse Buried by Mass. Hall | 5/17/1934 | See Source »

Mr. Philip Frances Samuels, Baconian scholar, editor, and independent book vendor, uncrooked one elbow from around a copy of "Ear ce Rammed," peered intently through his spectacles, and poked a long bony finger at the CRIMSON reporter. "Sure, I'm still here," said he, indicating with a jerk of his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baconian Defies Police Interference and Offers University 500 Copies of "Ear ce Rammed" | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

Starting with the night the Volstead Act shut down on the U. S. (Jan. 16, 1920), omnireminiscent Observer Walker takes a quick stroll through the 13 ensuing years, cocking a never-reverent eye at Manhattan's speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jazz Age Editor | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

(RKO-Radio). Crossing its fingers behind a burlesqued title, this film is a clumsy attempt to satirize the cinema theme of regeneration. But Director Mark Sandrich and several up-&-coming young actors have an attractively lighthearted time with the heavyhanded script. As Aggie the regenerator Wynne Gibson is a slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

The Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 10/6/1933 | See Source »

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