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...rejected. For here, in realistic terms, brutalized in content and set going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break her arm to get there? She could have hidden the pistol he handed her in her handbag, but instead she hid it in the sling?for romance, for Victor Hugo, immortal originator of gangster...
Assuming the national chairmanship of the Anti Gang Rule League, new and obscure crime prevention organization, Cartoonist Percy Lee Crosby (Skippy), took a sling shot at gangdom's Goliath. Said Chairman Crosby, famed for his personal newspaper advertisements against Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 16): "If invited, I will go to Chicago to meet Al Capone in his own territory, without gun permit or bodyguard...
...around Bombay, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Benares, Mr. Brailsford examined many Indian men and women bearing "wounds on teh feets or bruises on the stomach, made with the butt end of a rifle . . . one man with a terribly swollen arm, fractured or dislocated, hanging in a sling . . . a woman [with] a badly swollen face caused by a blow...
Elsie Janis, musicomedienne, explained why she carried her arm in a sling: she had been wrestling, clowning with Cinemactor Ramon Novarro at her Hollywood home. Said she: "It was just too ridiculous. ... I was just about ready to claim victory when he gave his body a slight twist and my shoulder slipped out of place...
...House of Lords learned, last week, from Baron Gorell how to "gazoomph a sarker," "noise the edge," and "sling a gee." This information was imparted by the Noble Lord, after he had spent a month in English provincial towns, spying and eavesdropping upon the uncouth persons who hold bogus auctions...