Word: gangsterisms
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James Cagney forsakes the city gangster to become an Oklahoma badman. The change isn't too convincing, but Cagney manages to shoot, mutilate, and generally manhandle other badmen in spite of the change in roles...
Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) re-entered the Government as Lord Privy Seal. A benevolent old pirate with indefatigable asthma, he is contemptuous of anyone who does not admire Churchill's Britain, Stalin's Russia, the U.S. and its women, folk songs, gangster movies. "The Beaver" has led the cry for a second front in Britain, does not beg when he differs with Crony Winston-something the Prime Minister appreciates. Commented London's Daily Mirror: "Mr. Churchill has brought over to his side again the most persistent critic of the Government...
...teaches Ernie the fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress His self proper...
SHADOWS ON THE WALL - Mary Reisner - Dodd, Mead ($2). The accidental fall that killed ardently admired Lawyer Frost looked like a purposeful push after investigation by a district at torney with a weakness for sultry females. Several of the murderer's house guests are implicated, also an ex-gangster neighbor - who becomes the catalytic agent that settles a seething emotional brew. The first murder is self-solving; a second death is anybody's guess. Tantalizing, turbulent...
...Only one of every eight was a gangster slaying...