Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Bellevue officials began to be puzzled by the fact that narcotics were filtering through the hospital. When they were certain that the hospital's medical supplies were not being tapped, they called in the cops. After weeks of false starts, the police began watching Rubino.
When he returned, he handed over a package of "horse," as heroin is known to the trade, retrieved his dog and walked calmly back to the waiting room. Last week, however, he kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of...
By their first hurried calculations, the cops guessed that Rubino had been grossing $500,000 a year-plus $81.80 a month in relief money, which he had drawn from the city during all his months of using its hospital.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer is probably the only well-known diplomat in the world who regularly finds it necessary to insist that he is 1) a poor and 2) an honest man. So many firemen, cops, politicos and Old Pals dealt in skulduggery during his years...
For a time Mrs. Horry's parents received letters bearing Australian postmarks signed "George & Eileen." Then one day Horry called on his in-laws, said that he had just returned from England, and told them sorrowfully that Mary Eileen had died in the Atlantic torpedoing of the Empress of...