Word: moll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Day. First to drop out of the race were Wesley Smith and Jacqueline Cochran, sole U. S. woman entry. They quit at Bucharest. First plane into Athens was the Douglas D. C.2 flown by Pilots J. J. Moll and Koene D. Parmentier of Royal Dutch Airlines. Their longtime service on the Amsterdam-Batavia airway (three-fourths of the MacRobertson route) gave them a decided edge over other contestants...
Second Day. Still far in the lead were Britons Scott & Black in their De Havilland Comet Grosvenor House. Behind them as they sped over the Bay of Bengal for Singapore were Parmentier & Moll. At Allahabad these two had lost valuable minutes when they carelessly took off without one of their passengers, had to return to pick him up. Two other Hollanders, Asjes & Geysendorfer, smashed their undercarriage landing at Allahabad. Their mishap put Turner & Pangborn in fourth place, which soon became third when they passed the Mollisons at Karachi. The Mollisons left there two minutes later, got lost, developed motor trouble...
...duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed the starved souls of Back Bay mocha-moochers, Jimmy drags a hopped-up moll across the room by her hair and boots her out the portal with the best kick since Albie Booth's winner of '31. In short, the film will amuse you from start to finish, beauty is represented by the lushy gangster moll, and Margaret Lindsay, Jimmy's true love...
Marilee Mark (real name: Mary Marek), once a Kenwood girl, now a racketeer's moll, brings a check to her dying mother. The check is accepted but not Marilee...
...that too. At the same time she arranges a combination swindle and blackmail scheme against the town banker. When she goes back to the penitentiary to save her daughter from the gangster, she does it with a calloused resignation that makes her less the mother than the moll. Good scene: Alison Skipworth showing her autograph album with the two entries: "Prosperity, Herb" (says she: "That was before he was elected") and "'India Is Yours, Gandhi...