Word: copse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A hawker had set up his stand in Chicago's Italian quarter where thousands of agitated people were milling about in the street. Small boys pelted the crowd with rocks. A Negro knifed an Italian. Women were fainting. Already the riot squads were on their way, and perspiring traffic...
Musing on the greensward was the Vagabond's contribution to world-thought yesterday. He was reclining on the grass in the Yard...oh, yes, he knows the yard cops and is a privileged character. In fact, the essence of his stream of consciousness was concerned with other privileged characters. To...
Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf.
Between 1825 and 1850 discipline in Hanover reduced itself to a game between the faculty and the students. The former, acting as police, were ever on the watch to catch their pupils in the midst of their misdemeanors. Each instructor was assigned to guard a certain section of the town...
Forty times he has been chased by cops for taking part in street demonstrations; 20 strikes have had his help. In Boston he became an anarchist; Mexico converted him to Communism. Onetime editorial assistant to Max Eastman of the late great Masses, three years ago he became editor of the...