Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biddies and cops are happy: the maids don't have to worry about pretzel crumbs in the rugs and the police don't have to worry about firecrackers in the streets.
Three times-by foot, subway and train -Artie Biggs, a freckle-faced eleven-year-old, had started out for Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week...
Traffic was thick on Paris' imposing Champs Elysées. A sleek Cadillac bearing U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson swung around the Rond-Point, headed for the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay. Round the other side, headed in the opposite direction, sped a Citro...
The Foreign Ministers of the U.S., Britain and France last week met in Paris to try to untangle a political and economic traffic jam that was seriously impeding the progress of Western policies in Europe, and there were no traffic cops to help.
When passers-by saw it the next morning, they gaped and gasped: the father's massive figure was unclothed. Within a few minutes a crowd of several hundred had gathered, and somebody called the police. The cops elbowed their way through the onlookers, took a horrified look themselves, and...