Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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November. The Board of Overseers will move into the new house. Thousands mill in the Square waiting for the Yale riot. When nothing happens, the thousands, of proctors, deans, tutors, Yard cops, and police leave. Fire Chief Kilfoyle is now in California, heading for Kenosha.
Lights burned late in government offices last week as President Pedro Aramburu and his military advisers checked over the intelligence reports on a plot against them; then the officers acted. Cops and Marines burst into a meeting in La Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires...
Special cops were on duty to untie traffic snarls converging on a San Fernando Valley mansion near Hollywood. The Yuletide cynosure: a rooftop Santa Claus, made of bamboo, hammering away at a wrought-iron piano garnished with a twinkly candelabra, while loudspeakers blared hi-fi recordings of the schmalziest music...
On the News. Reporter Lahey soon became known to most of the cops and crooks, bigwigs and bartenders in the city. He earned a reputation as a 100-proof character, in the softhearted, hard-drinking Front Page tradition, who could also turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack...
Chevalier's humor, obvious as most of it is, is full of subtle rapier-thrusts compared to the other film on the Brattle bill. Down Memory Lane, a collection of old Hollywood comedy sequences, offers such attractions as the Keystone Cops in a typical chase, W. C. Fields as a...