Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Memphis, once the toughest town along the Mississippi, there were no prostitutes, gamblers, policy games or gunmen. Crump had simply banished them. Beale Street Negroes could damage each other only by exercising some ingenuity. Crump's cops shook them down nightly for pistols, Arkansas toothpicks,* clubs, brass knucks...
Most U.S. harbors are not as foggy as Britain's, but Navy authorities believe that a system like Liverpool's would be "of definite value" in avoiding delays and collisions in thick weather. Plenty of radars are lying around, left over from the war. The Coast Guard, after...
Howdy, Chief. Reutlinger thinks nothing of telephoning across town-or across the world-and posing as the coroner, the Governor or a Cabinet member to wangle his news. When Texas cops caught Hoodlum Bonnie Parker for the FBI, Reutlinger phoned a Texas police chief, identified himself as the Chicago chief...
Unlike Nephew Leo, Uncle Philibert laughed at police traps, led the cops Mack Sennett chases. Sometimes he found temporary refuge in a tree, sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in the constitutional immunity of the Chamber of Deputies. But he died (1941) in Riom prison.
A Solo in Tom-Toms is a backward glance at his Colorado boyhood and bachelor days. Youth itself, he explains, is a sort of solo in tom-toms. Once he heard some Sioux Indians beating out a lament for a dead boy: Where has the young buck gone? Tell us...