Word: copse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The city has 65,000 Negroes, 15% of the population. For whatever sociological or economic reasons, Negroes had generally been involved wherever the police could get a line on a crime. But to calm observers it seemed that the crime wave-if it was one-could be blamed on the...
The carriage trade of Beverly Hills, Calif, was greatly taken with Mr. Maurice Monte Reingold, the fashionable jeweler and clubman. He had the greying good looks of a man of 56 who keeps himself in condition. He peddled costly kickshaws behind a fagade of glass and pink & grey marble-only...
When Sayde could finally talk, she told the cops about her dealings with Moe and his brother. They traced a thug named Abe Greenburg to New York, where he confessed that Moe and Gail had put him up to the job. They also found the man with the gun, a...
In Jersey City, ex-Mayor Frank Hague, onetime political Pooh-Bah of New Jersey (and longtime embarrassment to Franklin Roosevelt), tossed some pearls to a gathering of rookie cops and firemen. "Stay out of the clutches of money lenders and don't get tied up with liquor," advised his...
Siqueiros was a hell-for-leather Communist of the old-fashioned sort, and could never keep his eagle beak out of trouble: jail was always interrupting his painting. He is still a devoted party liner, though the Communists expelled him in 1930 for visiting his girl friend when he was...