Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past three months, 34 gangsters have been murdered in and about New York City as a result of inter-gang competition in labor union, bootlegging, narcotic and other routine rackets. But it was not New York City's gangsters who made news last week. It was their widows...
...companion piece shows Miriam Hopkins in an unusual role. As "Temple Drake" she wallows through a muck of William Faulkener situations with a drunken Southern boy, captured by gangsters, fascinated with the gang leader Trigger, ably played by William LaRue, she runs the gamut of degradation and disgrace to show you that the Southern girl at nineteen is dangerous, inbred, and crawling with complexes...
...north over Ontario's lake country to Porcupine gold camp. Their first goal was famed Mclntyre-Porcupine mine, Mr. Bickell's prize performer (which produced $5,425,000 of gold last year). There they met Sandy Mclntyre, onetime glass-molder, later foreman of a railroad construction gang, who discovered the mine and now lives on a pension (doled out in small amounts so that he will not disappear for too long at a time). There they went down into the bowels (4,134 ft.) of the earth to see the quartz gold vein being hacked. From Porcupine they...
...students were given R. O. T. C. training. Those who disliked it made more noise this year than ever before. At Northwestern University last month 30 pacifists, with banners, heckled an R. O. T. C. dress parade. At the College of the City of New York, students attempted to gang their President Frederick Bertram! Robinson at an R. O. T. C. parade while he belabored them with an umbrella. At Wisconsin and Missouri pacifists were bitter...
...Holmes, using an electric torch instead of the traditional bull's-eye lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...