Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro soldiers in a small café were celebrating with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor...
Sutherland: Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin are gangsters. Hull and Churchill are a couple of cops. All right, we're in a big city-say Chicago. The cops are interested in law & order and in keeping business going. Oh, sure, they'll accept a cigar, or an apple...
They went about their business as ineptly as a gang of urchins playing cops & robbers. They asked a police sergeant to show them the Premier's private apartments. He refused. The young men got lost in the echoing hallways. A group of three or four other men appeared; the...
Three young women rescue the evening on Joy Street. Catherine Whitfield, as the chatterboxy but clever Penny, cops the laurels. Her portrayal of an intelligent woman acting dumb is convincing where it could easily be fatiguing. The part of the other woman in her husband's life was assigned to...
Cops & Robbers. In Manhattan, tired burglar went to sleep in Central Park with his swag, woke to find it gone complained to a cop, got arrested for burglary. In Indianapolis, a burglar got out of a building by calling out boldly: "Hey let me out of here!" The watchman obliged...