Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greedy Manhattan can gulp up a convention crowd as easily as a sword swallower taking an aspirin tablet. But last week, as 250,000 members of the American Legion poured in for their biggest national convention since Pearl Harbor, the Big City cleared for action. It moved everything movable out...
Amen Corner. In Johnson City, N.Y., cops broke up a bustling little business for Peter Sadowitz, who was caught operating an unlicensed bar in the social room of a local church.
Saturation Point. In Lexington, Ky., a hospitable home owner was happy to have her two daughters and a woman friend living with her in her six-room house, even welcomed her son and his bride; but she called the cops for help when the bride's mother, three brothers...
Evasive Action. Near Centerville, Va., seven days after a member of a road gang stepped on a hornets' nest and the whole gang scattered for cover, cops were still looking for one who scattered out of sight.
For those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly...