Word: copse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yard cops announced today that they will hold a series of elimination tryouts for the selection of the bowling team that is to meet the Yale and Princeton campus police teams next week, via telegraph, in a Big Three All Flatfoot Bowling Meet.
Colonel Apted was immediately offered the post of manager which he declined on the grounds that he doesn't know anything about the sport. Although his secretary, an enthusiastic bowler herself, came forth with a cheerful suggestion about having a general day off declared for the match, the Colonel remarked...
"Morrissey's Quinces," a sextet of Yale campus cops, who claim they can lick anybody, will attempt to outbowl a selection of alleymen from Berkely College here tomorrow night. Strong man in the outfit is one Jim McNulty, who boasts a 137 average. Other members of the squad are flatfoots...
The 20 year old blonde Princess, accompanied by her wrestler husband, Bob Gregory (pronounced ughh), and numerous Yard cops, policemen, and camp followers, was being conducted on an unannounced tour of the Library, but word of her presence spread quickly. From all parts of the building research men came running...
Best performance: Arthur Byron, as the gangster who is remorseful for having been a bad father but disgusted that his own son should be inept enough to fall into the clutches of the cops.