Word: thugging
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...time it takes him to catch on that he is working for a murdering thug, Chauffeur Cummings has fallen in love with the boss's wife (Michele Morgan). How can the terrified lovers, surrounded by cutthroats, escape together on the night boat to Havana? In the better type of thriller, villains are foiled through the hero's ingenuity. The Chase's happy ending leans far too heavily on wrenched coincidence and pouncing Providence...
Even without motivation, however, the characters and events of "The Big Sleep" are fascinating. Bogart outwitting a thug in his own suave, self-assured manner is a good scene even when you are in the dark about what either one of them wants. And inter-play between Bogart and Bacall has not even yet lost the sheen of "To Have and Have...
They were not only the richest but also the most enlightened (that is, the least thug-like) of the zaibatsu. They lived quietly though sumptuously, and it was easier for a newsman to see the Prime Minister than one of them...
...Some etymologists trace the term to another Irishman named Hooley, whose gang became known as the Hooley-gang. Still others connect it vaguely with a notorious thug named Muldoon whose name spelled backwards reads "noodlum"; hence hoodlum and hooligan...
Warped Minds. There was Julius Streicher's claim that he was a thinker, not a thug. Countered the prosecution: as Nazidom's chief prophet of hate and as editor of his obscenely anti-Semitic Stürmer, he had flooded Germany with pseudoscientific, racist hogwash. Said the British prosecutor: "He leaves behind him as a legacy for Europe and the civilized world, millions of young warped and distorted minds ... a whole people poisoned with the lust of hatred, cruelty and murder." (The other defendants pointedly turned their backs on Streicher...