Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squeals on" a thug to save her fiancée. For doing so he gets shot, apparently to death, unlike Lawyer Fallen who died of a hemorrhage from drink...
...bring love life to the Swede, succeeded in doing both quite thoroughly. For the rest, the producer hired a lot of gentlemen with broken noses and created another gang-land picture. Mr. Lemon was a very simple Swede. Mr. McGee was a very complicated and very hard thug, whose cigars were of the definite variety. Both were Mr. Brendel. Both became involved with Miss Dorsay, calling her "Mees Yulee", or "that skoit" antiphonally. Both finally came to blows, and Mr. Brendel wrestled with himself all over the front lawn, threatened himself with a fake revover, and sent himself...
...must come, says the sage, to all good things, so it may be mildly hoped that the recent windfall of gangland "dramas" that has done so much to glorify the American Thug has worn itself out with "The Last Parade," this week's feature at Keith's. At any rate the picture goes a long way toward putting this particular type of entertainment "on the spot...
...infraction of the law will insure his being locked up. This shadowing prevents the crook's getting a start in the underworld here; it upsets his morale, and discourages his stay. The roving auto patrols which have been almost doubled since Hultman became commissioner last May, place the thug in constant danger of being surprised at work or being picked up as a suspicious character...
...Chicago, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas were listening to a radio-broadcast account of a holdup. Said John Pappas: "Say, no stickup guys could stick me up." Just then entered three well-armed thugs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas nervously put up their hands. Mrs. Ruth Pappas, with upraised arm, edged toward a shelf, seized a pistol, fired. One thug fell dead. A second howled, dived under a bed, popped up on the other side, leaped from the window. The third grabbed his fallen confederate, fled...