Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture which the millions saw across the gulf which separates a President from his people was the face of an honest man; so they idealized this picture and saw a man who saved their taxes; a man who was immovable amid clamor; a man who defied the mob; a man who beatified plutocracy by glorifying parsimony; a man who defied untoward events by ignoring them-him they saw as a hero and blinked his warts and scars. So in the white light that beats upon a throne the minor vices of a President sometimes at long range become his major...
...emerged from a fish shop and were entering a parked automobile. The targets died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld, jealous barons are likely to plot...
...battalion weaves on portable looms, another carpenters, another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...
Ladies of the Mob. Now it can be told that Clara Bow can do things other than reveal her stimulating figure. She can act, tensely, convincingly. She has gone the way of Gloria Swanson-from sex appeal to genuine histrionics (including sex appeal). In this picture, she is a lady gangster who has not forgotten that the forces of the law "burned" her father in the electric chair. After a bank robbery and a narrow escape, she persuades her young pal (Richard Arlen) to give up the gun game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California...
UNDERWORLD RACKET THE DRAG NET (George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent), LADIES OF THE MOB (Clara Bow and Richard Arlen). These two cinemae were written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime crack reporter of the New York World...