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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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If everything goes according to plan, the show will begin at 8:30 o'clock and take approximately three and a half hours, ending in the vicinity of midnight. The exact time of termination cannot be determined because in previous years the end of the Smoker has often been the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKER FEATURES BEER AND LAUGHS | 5/6/1942 | See Source »

Perhaps unconsciously, the travesty of "To Be Or Not To Be" is double-edged, poking fun at Hollywood itself. For, while taking over the externals of the immemorial horse-opera, the director substitutes rough burlesque for melodrama, Keystone cops for Gestapo villains. No expose of the stock movie-formula could...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/5/1942 | See Source »

France Found. The rue de la Huchette runs parallel to the left bank of the Seine for some 300 yards. On one corner stood a tiny police station. Usually the cops tried to chase the drunks, their commonest clientele, into another precinct. The Paris police, says Author Paul, were "almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

A story of police corruption that smeared the blue uniform of "New York's finest" was unreeled last week by Special Prosecutor John Harlan Amen (rhymes with layman). His charge: Brooklyn gamblers annually forked out $1,000,000 to cops who winked at their $100,000,000 bookmaking business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Alas, the Finest | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

But it was in the kitchen of a Brazilian industrialist that the strangest agent of them all was bagged. Brushing back the coarse black hair of the family cook, Brazilian cops were confronted by a captain of the Japanese Army. For five years he had been posing as a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spies & More Spies | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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