Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶At the University of Pennsylvania the next night, before the Penn-Army game, 3,000 men & women staged the most destructive "Rowbottom"* in the University's history. For four hours, demonstrators cut trolley wires and set kerosene fires on the streetcar tracks, overturned autos and punctured tires, kept...
The squatters prepared to stand off a siege. Many got a winter supply of coal, and began having ice, groceries and milk delivered. They hired two lawyers. But at week's end the going began to get tough. Six of the veterans were arrested for trespassing. Said their leader...
In her cell, Susan learned that it also (technically) forbids hitchhiking,* and demands (by a law passed in 1799) that strangers be able to give a good account of themselves. Susan's account, including her admittedly phony name, was not good enough for the easily irritated Jersey cops. But...
Like practically all cops & robbers diversions, this picture's plot has holes big enough to drive a black maria through. Most obvious hole: the rich Widow Fitzgerald appears much too bright to get herself mixed up with Garfield before checking with the Better Business Bureau. Much of the fresh...
"Crack-Up," however, features an adequate melodramatic plot and some first class direction. Pat O'Brien's train ride, under the pressure of trying to remember a night lost when he was drugged, makes a phantoin scene of great tension and force. But the rest of the picture is anticlimactic...