Word: gangsterisms
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Because for a brief period during the war he served in the United States Navy, the Legion furnished a guard of honor to one of the men responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their...
...Last Gangster (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finds swart, satchel-mouthed Edward G. Robinson. Hollywood's personification of the big, bad racketeer, still doing business at the old stand...
...returned from Washington with thick-rimmed spectacles and a breezy pugnacity which made Frenchmen start calling him "Tardieu I'Américain"-no compliment intended. Last week at Lyon, in a witness box, M. Tardieu testified with what seemed to most Frenchmen like the brutality of an American gangster...
Dalhover fired, wounding Walsh in the shoulder. Suddenly more Federal agents appeared in the store attempting to seize the gangster, who dashed for the cellar, emerged by a back door where two policemen collared him without difficulty. Meanwhile on the street outside, Brady and Shaffer, alarmed by the barrage from inside the store, jumped from their car and began firing wildly through the plate glass windows. Bangor citizens popped into the street, among them. Maine's Republican...
...count of 7 to 3. The questionnaire's sponsors, Fanchon & Marco, the potent firm which controls 31 St. Louis theatres, polled their audiences ten days. Other preferences of this quintessentially American city: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple. Only 1,609 St. Louis fans admitted that they liked gangster films...