Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boyhood friend named "Babyface" Martin. Martin's predilection for homicide has ranked him as Public Enemy No. 1. At the same time, the dramatist shows by inference how "Babyface" Martins are made by tracing the activities of a moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which his loyal sister attempts to remove with a can of kerosene. But environment leads him to rob a rich boy, stab the boy's father and start on his way to the reform...
...essentials, Dead End is simply Street Scene without a plot. But Mr. Kingsley's episode has been immeasurably enhanced by his collection of child actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...
...Republicans nominate an old-line Republican they'll be beaten worse'n last time, sure as shooting. They've just got to nominate a man who'll draw some Democratic votes, someone outside the political field. That's my chance. Of course this Republican gang like to hold everything in their own hands, but I'm going to get inside them and push them the right way. ... I just feel it's my duty...
...York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine had a theory all his own. To him the murder of Amberg and the assault on the Flegenheimer gang were plainly the outcroppings of a race war in the underworld-Italians v. Jews. Accordingly, he sent his men out to find Charles Luciana, called "Lucky" because he is one of the few men to survive a "ride." "Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their...
...gang of onetime Long bodyguards leaped to the attack. In the District Attorney's office one of them cornered Associated Press Photographer Leon Trice, who was once knocked unconscious on Huey Long's command, smashed his camera, was commencing to smash him when a little, old U. S. marshal drove him off. In a corridor Colonel Shushan & friends met the other offenders...