Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unpopular with other prisoners at Alcatraz Island Penitentiary because of his wealth and scrupulous good behavior, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone was attacked by the most desperate of his fellow convicts, a bankrobber named James C. Lucas, leader of the prison riots last January which Capone refused to join. Catching Capone at work in the prison laundry, Lucas plunged a pair of scissors into his back. Whirling, Capone saved himself from serious injury, fought off Lucas until guards rescued him. Sobbed the onetime U. S. Public Enemy No. 1: "Why don't these fellows like...
...When his behavior has unfavorable reactions, he goes back to the seeress, who creates a new past for him as Ram-Tah, Egyptian king. Possession of his ancestor's shriveled mummy further restores Bean's confidence. Marriage to Mary and the sale of an airplane patent, following the destruction of the mummy, then convince Bean that his deeds are his own instead...
...students was on his water polo team. Under Deans Thomas Walter Swan (1916-27) and Robert Maynard Hutchins (1927-30), the Yale Law School enjoyed its Angellic renaissance. Then Milton Winternitz and Robert Hutchins collaborated on the Institute of Human Relations, dedicated ambitiously to the general study of human behavior, a unique co-operative research centre that unites the best of Yale's postgraduate brains...
...superhuman, Ashenden belongs to the modern school of sleuths whose fallibility makes them plausible. In Secret Agent he scuffs about hotel corridors, deserted churches, glaciers, the backstairs of a chocolate factory, wearing an unhappy frown which is at times reminiscent of Charles Butterworth's. Spy Ashenden's behavior is, however, less of a hindrance than a help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much), Secret Agent...
VILLAGE CHRONICLE-James McConnaughey-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A slice of life in a Carolina college town, centering about the behavior of a young English instructor who rashly challenges the established color-line, backs down under the pressure of community ostracism and an ailing wife...