Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ In Providence, R. I., citizens who had been run out of Roger Williams Park at 10 p.m. by the cops had a kick coming. An investigation revealed that some of the cops had been trysting for two years with local girls in the park barn-after 10 p.m.
Yard cops visiting the Wigglesworth lair 15 minutes later found the flingers still brushing up on technique. An England A section man they had beaned; the Deans will take action tomorrow.
Each bureau chief and stringer went about getting the answers in his own way. Being perceptive journalists who live and work in their communities, they could be expected to know them well. To confirm their knowledge, however, and to get the additional facts, they had days of pavement-pounding and...
One day about a year ago, Mrs. George Frederick Hanowell, a 60-year-old Washington, D.C. matron, visited a friend who had four children, 5 to 11. All four were huddled about the radio, and "that Inner Sanctum," Mrs. Hanowell recalls with distaste, "was blasting away. There was a fusillade...
Neither Kirsten Flagstad nor the Italian cops knew what to expect. In Milan last week 200 plainclothesmen were sprinkled through the audience in famed La Scala opera house, and outside, strong police squads stood ready. There had been hints of trouble. The former chief of staff of the Milanese partisan...