Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Viva Villa, Pancho (Phillip Cooper) is a ten-year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites him to make his gang...
...Switzes confessed to being agents, said that their original orders came from Roosevelt Field, L. I. French police made it sound much better than that. They succeeded in embroiling the Switzes with almost everyone accused of espionage in France for the past year, talked largely of an international gang that worked for the strange partners. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, against France, Britain and the U. S. The apartment of a Mlle. Baila Englard was raided. It was unoccupied but reported to be full of secret drawers, sliding panels and lists of people whose names were not divulged. French agents...
Charles Laughton (Henry VIII); runner-up: Paul Muni (/ Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang...
...into the refrigerator of Atlanta's swanky Piedmont Driving Club. Georgia's Game & Fish Commissioner found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta's First...
...ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany. Metropolitan coincidence brought them tragically together. Young Castie Petrella, one of Carolyn's more difficult pupils, a sullen boy who pined for a big, bad reputation, tried to impress his gang by stealing a car. He was caught almost immediately, sent to jail. Carolyn was the only person who understood why he had done it, but her vague inquiries were powerless to help him, until she discovered amiable Amy Turk, wife of the man who owned the car. Together they went...