Word: gangsterisms
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...deadliest Ruffie MacTuffies, have been friends ever since they began their careers as vaudeville hoofers in Manhattan in the 205. Cagney was responsible for one of Raft's earliest cinema parts, a dancing bit in Cagney's Taxi. Their appropriate reunion, also celebrating their return to the gangster movies where they belong, is a fierce slugfest in handcuffs...
...recover a clothes bill from dapper Gangster Lawyer Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, who this week finishes a stay in The Bronx County jail for participating in the Dutch Schultz policy racket, swank Haberdasher Amos Sulka went to court. Some items: shirts at $18.25 (one day Customer Davis bought 16), handkerchiefs at $3, silk drawers* at $12.50, socks at $5.25 a pair, two "ladies' lounge suits" at $105 each...
...There is a great period of darkness in our understanding of what this tiny gangster does when he enters the body. He disappears for about 14 days after he enters the body and before he shows up in a living cell. It may be that a knowledge of his movements in that two weeks' spree will lead to some method of blocking his entrance...
...last week declared Dr. William Charles White of the National Institute of Health addressing the National Tuberculosis Association in Boston. The hiding gangster he spoke of was the tuberculosis bacillus. Dr. White announced that a grant had been made to study the bacillus under the new world's biggest "cyclotron" or atom-smashing machine at the University of California, which weighs 225 tons and has just produced a record-breaking beam of 19,000,000-volt particles. By stuffing the bacillus with radioactive phosphorus produced in cyclotron bombardments, the California researchers will ry to make it give...
Adolf Hitler he usually depicts as an in sensate madman, Benito Mussolini as a simple gangster, Francisco Franco as a malicious child, Neville Chamberlain as a confused...