Word: nightstick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes...
...Revived strong-arm squad-large, gruff officers specially chosen to nightstick gangsters. Two strong-arm squads for Manhattan, one for each of the other boroughs...
Other able melodramas: DRACULA; NIGHTSTICK...
Other able melodramas: THE RACKET, DRACULA, NIGHTSTICK...
Other able melodramas: THE RACKET, DRACULA, NIGHTSTICK, CELEBRITY...