Word: copse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Seattle's ten-story County-City Building one night last week swarmed some 3,000 hungry, ragged men, women & children. For months they had been living on food from county commissaries. Now the Legislature had decreed that they should get it from neighborhood grocers with requisitions issued by...
Into Manhattan's Town Hall where many earnest musicians have made drab little debuts and never been heard from again, there crowded one afternoon last week flashlight and newsreel photographers, traffic cops and star reporters. The occasion was just one more debut. A product of Manhattan's lower...
Singer Smith's selections called for no fancy, bravura vocalizing. He sang two simple folk songs-"The Sidewalks of New York" and "The Bowery"-and so far as his audience was concerned his vocal shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he...
"Give the cops hell!" a veteran shouted. His massed companions pressed in upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards...
Radio Patrol (Universal) is a story of the radio-car police. Robert Armstrong and Russell Hopton, rookies at the police training school, painfully learn their lessons from Sergeant Sidney Toler, get rough &-tough themselves. At the graduation dance Armstrong takes Hopton's best girl, Lila Lee, later marries her...