Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Gelinas, editor of Montreal's pro-Communist weekly Combat (circ. 2,500), had barely settled down to work one day last week when a squad of policemen clumped into his office. Cried 23-year-old Editor Pierre Gelinas: "What the hell have you come here for?" The cops...
The harder he works the fishier the old case gets. He comes to believe in the prisoner's innocence. Before he knows it, he has much of Chicago's population with him and the whole of Chicago's police force against him. He has to steal evidence...
The smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at...
In the Palmer House's gold-laced Empire Room, Chicago's Irish have been crowding in nightly to hear cocky Tenor Regan sing Paddy McGinty's Goat, The Toorie on His Bonnet, and Dear Old Donegal. Warming their Irish faces at the front tables with Illinois'...
Two days later, baby-faced Sherbondy holed up in George Bauer's farmhouse. Mrs. Bauer pleaded with him. Her seven-year-old son had appendicitis. Would he let a neighbor drive them to a hospital? He would. "I knew they would tell the cops," Sherbondy said, "but I couldn...