Search Details

Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Stripper Georgia Sothern, who had been warned by the cops to slow down (TIME, March 8), ground to a halt at Manhattan's Club Samoa. Police who came back to catch her act revoked her café working permit. Georgia amplified her own interpretation of her art: "[The cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Comings & Goings | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

In an appeal to Dean Leighton's office last week, the company asked for help in protecting the pay stations in the Yard, and threatened to remove the offended machines if present practices continue. Although Yard cops are always on the lookout, the Dean explained that Freshmen have been getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

The strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: It's Back | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the cops got confessions from Senator Angulo's killers-two gunmen and a wealthy contractor who thought the Senator stood in the way of his political ambitions. One midnight last week they set out from Mexico City with the three prisoners, headed for Vera Cruz, where they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Crime & Punishment | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Along the road, by the story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Crime & Punishment | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | Next