Word: banion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full dinner pail," refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits...
Said the hard-boiled Chicago Tribune: "The burghers will be inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed Murphy was a harder egg than Murphy. As one gangster is killed off he is succeeded by an-other who is less restrained by the standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn...
...Scarface Al" Caponi is king (TIME, Oct. 11). Their wars are flamboyant spectacles-a multi-punctured body on the steps of the Holy Name Cathedral in broad daylight, two more corpses across the street at the door of a florist's shop . . . the funeral of Dion O'Banion, with $30,000 worth of flowers, with thugs and city officials tramping solemnly side by side . . . "Scarface Al" Caponi sitting quietly in the restaurant of his Cicero hotel with machine gun bullets whistling all around him. . . . As King Caponi once said: "It [the Prohibition law] looked like a good opening...
...what advertisers love to call red-blooded. The romantic part of the story deals with Molly Wingate, whose parents are determined that she will marry the unattractive Sam Woodhull, but who has decided in her own mind that she much prefers the more heroic and less blustering Will Banion. Therefore the major characters have still other worries all the way out from Westport Landing to Oregon than Indians, starvation, freezing, floods, and homesickness. The villain as usual spends his time trying to get a good clean shot at the hero, and the hero spends his time rescuing the fair Molly...
...lickered up" together, and then each take a shot at a mug of whiskey perched on the other's head, just to snow that a man can always trust an old friend, is perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems a shame. However the setting is the important thing in this picture and that is done remarkably finely...