Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crime. The thug-belabored Manhattan, Playwrights Samuel Shipman and John Hymer brought comfort. Your real criminal, they divulged, never shoots in the head or abdomen for death, but merely in the arm or leg for legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester...
...Three days later, the Rev. Bowlby grew vexed, charged the press with publishing "false and libelous statements." His version is that he caught a gentleman's arm to prevent him from fighting, while someone else grabbed the gentleman by the coat and pulled him to the floor...
...great and staggering significance of what was said in the Belgian Chamber officially last week is that the most pacific nation in Europe doubts that the Locarno Pact will keep the peace, and prepares to re-arm ("defensively," of course) for another...
...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...
...Manhattan, police were informed by telephone that "200 men are murdering each other" in a Bowery speakeasy. The strong-arm squad found a large room full of tumbling, bashing, roaring, drunken men whom they described as "bummers." Tables, floor and an icebox were strewn with forms knocked unconscious by fists, feet and drinks at 20? each. Next day the police arraigned 133 Bowery derelicts, the largest number of culprits that ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them...