Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Cagney's latest tough boy spiel, now on the University sheet under the cognomen of "Lady Killer," is the fastest moving and most entertaining film released since "Bomb Shell." Like that Harlow epic, it is no esthete's reward, not yet a De Mille nogrom of the conventions; it is purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief...
...headquarters and Lady Moira was taken out and shot. Kerry went hell-for-leather to the nearest Black & Tan post, gave himself up, turned informer. He had the pleasure of seeing his oldtime pals butchered. Finally the Black & Tans tied him up in the underground factory, set a time-bomb ticking...
...manages to disorganize the personnel of at least one battleship and one admiral's country home. He has developed a penchant for the important sex which would do credit to a disciple of Harpo Marx'; he becomes a boxer for is day; and he winds up under bomb fire on a condemned ship. The film, then, is not without action, and not without comedy relief. It is excellent entertainment. Lack of space precludes any remarks on the other picture, "Cradle Song...
...Bucharest and burst wild-eyed into the Sinaia stationmaster's office where Assassin Constantinescu was held. He whipped out a small revolver and sent two bullets whistling round the prisoner. Bang! Bang! Neither of them took effect. Radu Polizu was disarmed and hustled out of the room. Another bomb, apparently a spare left over from the evening assassination, burst in the station waiting room wounding a small child who stepped on it by accident. The engineer of the funeral train pulled out with a sigh of relief...
...which 40 of his Amarillo cronies appeared in frock coats rented from Chicago. She called him "the queerest person I have ever met." Three years ago Gene Howe performed his greatest journalistic coup. An Amarillo lawyer named A. D. Payne, suspected of killing his wife by placing a bomb in their automobile, went to the News-Globe office and asked Editor Howe to find the real culprit. With the aid of the Kansas City Star's crack Crime Reporter A. B. MacDonald, Editor Howe found that the real culprit was A. D. Payne...