Word: thugging
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Despite the muscling-in operations of Captain Marvel and his ilk, Superman remains champion of radio fantastics. He has even reduced a comic-book rival--Batman--to a subordinate position in the Superman show. Batman is permitted to knock off a minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just...
Offensive. In Sacramento, Calif., Margaret Patterson explained to police how she had been able to drive off a thug who tried to hold her up: "I just laughed...
Cruel & Unusual. In Omaha, Grocer Amil Martin explained how he had dealt with an armed hold-up man: "I began sacking groceries and just ignored him." The thug finally gave up, said "Okay, Mac, you win," went away emptyhanded...
...detective scoffs at the old society-is-to-blame alibi by reminding the thug that they both started with exactly the same disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts...
...four store employees, who had been working late. "Aren't you new here?" asked one of the employees. "Yes," said one,of the robbers. "What's your name?" "Morgenthau." "Oh, that's a good name. You must have lots of money." "I have, replied the thug...