Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Las Vegas, Nev., Actor John Barrymore Jr., 22, in an escapade reminiscent of some his madcap father used to pull, was nabbed for reckless driving while whooping it up on his second wedding anniversary. He gave the cops some grandiloquent lip, was promptly tossed into jail, let out shortly...
Lunatics and Lovers (by Sidney Kingsley) represents a new venture-into farce -for the author of Men in White, Dead End and Detective Story. But, though it certainly has its good points, there is nothing new about Lunatics and Lovers itself. The scene is a farce-hallowed Broadway hotel suite...
Jodhpur's cops, under the agitated command of Police Superintendent Sobhagmal Surana, have been on constant guard at the city's cremation grounds to prevent further acts of suttee. The priest who had charge of the original Singh funeral is in jail awaiting trial for making a pyre...
Last week, as Superintendent Surana was discussing his many problems with Rajasthan's chief provincial minister, a cop interrupted their talk to whisper an urgent message in his ear. Hastily excusing himself, Surana raced with his cops to the nearby village of Lahardi, arriving just in time to halt...
"Disturb us and you will be turned to ashes!" cried the officiating sadhu, a holy man, as Surana's men forced their way through the ring of rubbernecks. The cops attacked a pile of cement slabs with pickaxes and dragged a young Hindu out of a freshly dug grave...