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Word: copses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Apted, superintendent of care takers and head of the College yard cops, last night scouted the idea that Federal officers were making any new or concentrated effort to dry up Harvard square, and suggested that this was merely an individual case in which the alleged bootleggers happened to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRY AGENTS PINCH TWO ON GOLD COAST | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

"No, not much, but then we have to be pretty careful. These -- state cops are pretty bad in Massachusetts. And specially in Boston. Every one of them is a hypocrite; you can't trust them. No, as a matter of fact, I won't say all of them, because just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Mr. Jesse L. Lasky, who is rapidly becoming the prophet, as well as the co-boss of the cinema industry, last week issued another of his incisive and optimistic manifestoes. Determined to be quite judicial about everything, Mr. Lasky confessed that, in the quaint old days of the silent films...

Author: By Richard WATTS Jr., | Title: Talkies Even More Uniform Than Silent Productions--Backstage, College Lead | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

In Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Broadway (Universal). As a play on the stage, Broadway was memorable because the careful realism of setting and character made the high-strung plot seem truer than it was. In cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Other New Pictures | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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