Word: barker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laws. One March day in 1932 a German-born carpenter named Bruno Hauptmann sneaked into a house in Hopewell, N.J. and kidnaped the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh. Across the country the unchecked armed mobs of John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker gang were leaving a trail of robbery, murder and kidnaping...
With a chest thump and ape warble, Tarzan will start vine-swinging from the lianas for the 26th time next week. In Tarzan and the Slave Girl, Producer Sol Lesser is giving the tenth and current Tarzan (Lex Barker) a new mate-probably Vanessa Brown. But the script will hold close to the tried & true line that has enchanted three decades of romantics and grossed around $3,000,000 a picture. Tarzan has been the most durable and successful series in movie history...
...proposed fund will endow occasional lectures to Harvard audiences by authorities on the theater. During his lifetime, Spencer, the late Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, invited such personages of Granville Barker and John Gielgud into his class room...
Lloyd was really Ma Barker's only failure. She could barely read or write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken physician to slash her favorite Freddie's fingers in a vain effort to alter his fingerprints...
...slugs and dumped into Webster Lake, Minn., because she thought he had tipped off the cops to one of their hideouts. She had George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...