Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jimmie Wilson, 46, one of baseball's topflight catchers, who rip-roared to fame with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Gas House Gang"; of a heart attack; in Bradenton, Fla., where he had retired to his fruit plantation. Wilson had a nightcap of glory in the 1940 World Series as coach of the Cincinnati Reds; at 40, he hauled on his catcher's harness, helped the Reds win the series victory...
...Paint the Joint Red." Just after Repeal, Billy was hired (at $1,000 a week) by an underworld syndicate, backed by some of the more distinguished members of the Brooklyn Beer Gang, to run a big Broadway nightspot called the Casino de Paree. With the Casino, Billy revolutionized the nightclub business. His plan of action to attract the masses: 1) "Red is the most successful and exciting color, so paint the joint red"; 2) "Crowd them together-they'll communicate the excitement through their elbows"; 3) "Keep the prices reasonable, the liquor good and the food edible"; 4) "Make...
Billy opened still another entertainment factory, the Billy Rose Music Hall, before he and the Beer Gang "separated" in 1934. In parting, Billy rashly gave a piece of his mind to some of the boys. To keep Billy from (as Billy said) "being built into the East River Drive," Friend Bernard Baruch called in the FBI. Billy named names, and the G-men had a word with all of them. Billy had found another equalizer...
...cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang of gamblers, a blackmailer, three corpses, the Los Angeles police force, and the old bulldog's unpleasant son (Conrad Janis). In the long run, he breaks the sinister hold Miss Bates has en Miss Guild, and takes an affectional full nelson on the young woman himself...
Prominent witches such as Isobel Gowdie were often members of an organized "coven" of sorcerers-men & women who assembled regularly in barren places under the direction of a "Grand Master," who was usually masked and garbed in animal skins and satanic horns. When the gang had reported on their success or failure as satanic agents since the last meeting and had finished feasting (usually on a sheep stolen from a farmer), the Master took up his reed pipe and led them in a riotous dance, which ended in a sexual orgy lasting "until the first light of dawn broke...