Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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So the police hustled 52 of the pickets, including the priests, to the nearest precinct. While the contest judges slowly settled on their choice, the cops made a lengthy check on the pickets to determine whether their identity cards were in order. It took them until 5 a.m., when by...
The City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with...
Trail Blazer. In Kansas City, Mo., cops had no trouble following the trail of Earl Dean Thompson, 32, who heaved a hammer through a plate-glass store window, rammed his auto into a parked car, veered off and jumped the curb, struck two trees, drove back onto the street, smashed...
Martha's basement garage was made over into The Snake Pit, Washingtonese for the dark and cozy Mayflower Hotel cocktail lounge,* where lobbyists and politicians meet when the sun gets low. An eight-piece orchestra was hired, and a seven-foot-high fence was built (at a cost of...
Capacity to Pay. In Davenport, Iowa, when Displaced Person Ignauy Stachal told police that he was broke and needed a place to sleep, he got a cell in the municipal jail, was politely ushered out next morning when the cops found $1,023 in his wallet.