Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflict, safe and far, Still wage with lips their travesty of war; We catch the rumor when the cannon cease. Here at the front, when most of the cannon rage, The dream-touched actors on this mighty stage In silence play their parts, and seem at peace. Lean, swart and homely, wise and sardonic...
Born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., swart-skinned, jet-haired Douglas Brown whose ancestors were Mohawks was an Army officer at the age of 17, graduated from Harvard (1920) at an untimely age. He answered one of Thomas Alva Edison's famed questionnaires so astutely that he got a position in the Edison laboratories, specializing in lighting. To the cinema studios then went he and invented special lighting effects for Gloria Swanson's The Humming Bird. Drifting to New Orleans, he became manager of a Little Theatre, hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of Tulane University. Somebody told...
...George ("Bugs") Moran, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and other Grade A gangsters, only eight minor figures were rounded up by police during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker and William ("Three-fingered Jack") White, both agents...
...dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes him, thereby making himself eligible for the death penalty-under military law. During a thunderstorm just prior to this occurrence the swart lieutenant had announced ominously: "The gods are angry tonight; they demand a sacrifice. . . . My native blood is strong within me?something is threatening." From the standpoint of audience-intelligence, the play is neatly titled...
When he was alive, swart Gangster Jack Zuta told suspicious Chicago police nothing enlightening about the Lingle murder (TIME, June 23, et seq.). But Jack Zuta dead on a Wisconsin dance floor (TIME, Aug. 11) became an eloquent police informant on many subjects. He left careful records of his business transactions in numerous safe-deposit boxes at various banks. Four of these boxes were unearthed during the past fortnight by Special (Lingle-case) Investigator Pat Roche of the State Attorney's office. Puzzled were police and investigators at finding little Zuta money other than...