Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after his wife filed for separate maintenance on the ground that he drinks too much, Actor Sonny Tufts gave a concrete demonstration of the sort of thing she had in mind. For noisily arguing with the entrepreneur of an all-night eatery over a $4.55 bill for fried chicken...
From Manhattan, Actress Ella Raines angrily wired Hollywood cops to recover a set of patio chairs she said had been pinched by Actress Miriam Hopkins. Miss Hopkins promptly obliged with a calmer version of the story: "I borrowed the patio furniture for a party, and I was just being real...
In a series of columns, he wrote that the local policy racket, long known as the "bug," was flourishing more than ever. Its headquarters, wrote Collins, had shifted from Atlanta to nearby Clayton County, where residents complained of "prostitution, bootlegging . . . brawling in the roadhouses and occasional slayings." Said Collins: the...
While the cops trudged off to check up, Delmer got off a flash to his London office:
COPS WAITING FOR ME STOP SEE YOU SOON. The Express broke open its last edition to splash a bannerline across Page One: PERSIA EXPELS DELMER.