Word: gangsterisms
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Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...
...Hollywood, ex-Convict Jeareld McDonald was hired as technical adviser for gangster films, decided he wanted to act, secured a "bit." A friend saw the picture, told Mrs. Estelle O'Neal whom he had married in 1927. Mrs. O'Neal had Jeareld McDonald arrested for bigamy because later he had married Mrs. Katherine Mandel without bothering about a divorce. Jeareld McDonald went back to jail for ten years...
...weak both in physique and in character, the War teaches him the warped idea that with a gun in front of him he is as strong as any man. Franchot Tone, looking less like a plucked chicken than usual, gives an excellent portrayal as the dough-boy gangster, and he is adequately backed by the performances of Spencer Tracy and Gladys Goerge...
...story thrusts Bette Davis, as the widow of a slain gangster, into a topsy-turvy milieu, in which she becomes secretary to a whimsical and unhappily married lawyer (Ian Hunter) and the one-night bride of a thoroughbred weakling (Henry Fonda). His uncompromising father forces an annulment, the young man goes obediently abroad to marry another (Anita Louise), unaware that he is leaving an unborn son behind him. On this star-crossed situation there follow several slow-footed years, distinguished in the film by bright directorial fillips and badly managed transitions, while the Furies mobilize for the unreasonable onslaught that...
...dormitory fedder is not to be obtained by legitimate methods, the colleges are prepared to use gangster methods," John R. Tunis, a world's authority on tennis, charges in an article titled "Solling Scholarship Short" appearing in the current Scribners' magazine...