Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zasu Pitts carries the brunt of the work, doing a much more careful job as the gangster's moll than Ruth Chatterton, whose sobs as the mother bereft never equal the gusto of that master of the choked gurgle, Mr. Al Jolson (applause, a little scattered). When Mickey Bennett sits on the sofa with the little girl with the curls, and she attempts to pull his head down on her juvenile and probably bony breast, and he draws away, she says: "Don't you understand?" It's a talkie...
...Side mob from "Schemer" Drucci, who inherited it from "Hymie" Weiss, who inherited it from the late great Dion O'Bannion. The perforated bodies were those of Moran's brother-in-law and co-leader, James Clark; No. 1 Gunman Peter Gusenberg, Con-Man John Snyder, Gorilla Al Weinshank, John May, the man in overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours after the shooting but gangland's curious code of honor sealed his lips against police proddings. Besides him, the only living thing in the garage...
...never flinched. . . ." We are wondering if James Cannon Jr. of the M. E. Church south shall blink when he sees the Holy Places in Palestine-all of them, if we remember rightly, in charge of Roman Catholic Franciscan monks. (And you know that rascal Al Smith believes the same as they do.) If Cannon Jr. would have a competent guide then must he seek a son of Francesco Bernardone...
...Also in Florida last week: Herbert Hoover, Jack Dempsey, Colonel Lindbergh, Scarface Al Capone...
Last week a challenge at ping-pong was given the formality of print. The editorial staffs of The Dartmouth and the Harvard Crimson, college dailies solemnly arranged to meet on tables at Cambridge, Mass. The Dartmouth, trepidatious, threatened to give collegiate journalistic standing to Alton Kimball ("Al") Marsters, famed Dartmouth footballer. Marsters, Dartmouth interfraternity ping-pong champion, rates no golden key for activity on the college daily, but Editor Robert Rathbone Bottome said that, if necessary, he would appoint Marsters to his staff if the Crimson pingers ponged potently. The Crimson's men complained bitterly...