Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prosecution was headed by softspoken, wild-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson. Field marshal of the Government's forces seeking to break up gang rule by the left-handed method of jailing gangsters for tax evasion, his success would be measured by his ability to dispose of Capone. Frankly disappointed when the "deal" fell through, he was now excited, eager, mysterious. So far he had kept secret the list of his "surprise" witnesses...
Born 32 years ago, son of a provincial hotelkeeper at Scarborough, England, Actor Laughton started miming soon after leaving Stonyhurst College. The last five years have seen his rise to prominence on the British stage in Alibi, Beauty and. incongruously, as the Italo-Chicagoan gang leader in Edgar Wallace's On The Spot. He created the role of Mr. Marble...
Penrod and Sam (First National). A minor cycle of juvenile comedies (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Skippy, Forbidden Adventure) has immeasurably improved this branch of entertainment in the cinema. Where such pictures a few years ago attempted nothing more ambitious than antic farce, as exemplified in the Our Gang comedies, there is now a fashion for being lifelike as well as funny. The fashion is eminently becoming to Penrod...
Host. Meanwhile. Detroit prepared to receive its visitors, the largest convention of Legionnaires ever held. Three members of the "Little Jewish Navy'' gang were executed in an apartment house for hijacking $110,000 worth of liquor which had been imported to slake the palates of thirsty Legionnaires. One of the deceased, ''Nigger Joe" Leiboutz, was not only a Legion member but belonged to the local committee for the registration of delegates...
Other Syndicalist ladies were not so soft. While hundreds of frightened Barcelonians gathered for safety in the ancient Gothic cathedral, a gang of wild-eyed Amazons broke in, climbed high in the lantern over the West Front and began sniping at soldiers and police from the roof while Barcelona's sacred geese squawked horribly in the cloister...