Word: slugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warner Bros.-First National) winks at the Hays Code, which frowns on teaching cinemaddicts how to commit crimes, by illustrating a practically foolproof way to commit one. When Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square...
...weather its incendiary bullets are handy. They drive the enemy out of his flaming cover into the open where he can be mowed down by gunners firing at the rate of 600 lead-cored slugs a minute. Within 600 yards the shocking power of its standard bullets is terrific-one burst can tear away a man's face, one slug in shoulder or ankle can knock him sprawling...
Nearby Nazis peeked, failed to see the joke, began to slug, and Humorist Curts landed in the Heidelberg cooler. Shrewdly he wrote to his guardian in California: "The beating I received did me a lot of good. . . . Only through this beating did I really get an opportunity to know the German people. . . . How beautiful, how industrious, how serene it is here in Germany. ..." Again the Nazis peeked and, touched by such sincere repentance plus representations from the U. S. State Department, the Ministry of Justice last week decided to release young Curts after only a month in jail...
...jury last week awarded the electric chair to Herman Petrillo, 40, spaghetti salesman and "brains" of a murder-for-insurance syndicate alleged to have done away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo tried to slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object...
...assault case, when he noticed that Juror No. 7 was missing. After a whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...