Word: henchman
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...With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, two much disgruntled Government outsiders, were already openly Eden's backers this week. That afternoon, Mr. Lloyd George took bows and cheers as he entered the House of Commons just ahead of Mr. Eden and the latter's faithful Foreign Office henchman, Lord Cranborne, who had announced he was resigning, too. Then the Prime Minister entered, got 1½ minutes' cheering from Conservatives, while Laborites booed...
...Senator John Milton, 57, a lawyer and a Hague henchman...
Finally U. S. Senator Harry Moore, New Jersey's Governor-elect and a Hague henchman, rose and introduced his boss as "the most fearless public official in the country...
Chicago police and Washington income tax sleuths said they have never heard of Alex ("Kid Tiger") Sikorski. Yugoslav police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...