Word: outlaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...personal interest and initiative of President Carlos Ibanez himself that Congress passed the special law enabling us to have games of roulette and baccarat." Observers commented on the fact that dictators like President Ibanez. Primo de Rivera and Prime Minister Mussolini nearly always encourage roulette, while republican governments outlaw...
...fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more...
Other nations were willing also to outlaw tear gas, but Mr. Gibson successfully argued that the object was to ban inhumane gasses and that those, such as tear gas, which were more humane than machine guns, ought not to be prohibited...
...will not live in an outlaw State. If I must live in a Democratic State, it will have to be a dry State. I suggest my home be bought for retired Senators and Governors to be used two years from now." Twitted about Florida's notorious Wetness, she added: "Its strong State law is remarkably effective. . . . The drinking in Miami and Palm Beach is perpetrated by privileged people from the North...
...general Billy the Kid lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw out of his cave by cooking bacon where he can smell...