Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The sound of distant church bells pealed for half an hour one day last week over the brown hills of Greece-by state decree. In Athens, traffic cops stopped cars to tell drivers what had happened. Newsboys shouted it, innkeepers told their guests. A commemorative postage stamp was ordered. Greek...
> Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The...
Armed with axes and spurred on by a wave of alcoholic enthusiasm, the three patriots climbed over all obstacles only to run into an ambush of Yale watchmen. The cops held on with bulldog ferocity, and finally escorted the miscreants to jail, where they remained until after midnight.
Vainly Steve Early argued, hauled out his Secret Service commission. Vainly he tried to push past the bluecoats, was pushed back in plain sight of 35 waiting newsmen, between Secretary of Treasury Henry Mogenthau and Secretary Marguerite LeHand, who were also kept back by the cops. Steve Early jerked up...
The script is rather incpt patchwork, composed of three O'Ncill plays and a war background to fill the gaps. The action takes place aboard a British tramp steamer and in wet harbor streets infested with demi-monde and cops. All kinds of human fates are thrown together on the...