Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the telephone jingles at the headquarters of Marseille's police judiciaire, everybody scrambles to answer, for the caller may well be somebody with a thick French southern accent saying: "If you go to such and such a place, you will find a bundle of valuable stolen merchandise." A...
Worse yet. to hold the cops at bay the artnapers had coolly let it be known that they possessed still a third trove of stolen paintings-57 works lifted last July in St.-Tropez. The St.-Tropez paintings had proved to be uninsured and hard to get ransom for, but...
Prayilny: Intouristy (literally, foreign visitors), meaning any of the locals who are dumb enough to swallow the party line. Koni (parents, literally horses), seriaki (old squares, grey ones) and gady (cops, literally reptiles). Anyone else who gets you into a lazha (jam), such as a pizhon (stoolie) or piraty (secret...
Quite apart from the tactfully undrawn color line of its interracial love affair, No Strings arrived on Broadway with a fanfare of anticipation about new musical comedy techniques. The orchestra has been hauled out of the pit, the bulk of it invisibly placed at the side of the stage and...
This is the dream of Charles ("Sonny"') Liston, 29. It is a tortured dream, peopled with shadows: hoodlums, lawyers, judges, cops, commissioners, pugs, promoters, priests, Senators and sportswriters. It is a fragile dream. But there is a chance of its coming true. Last week the terms of the contract...