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Romps In the Garden. Taken alive was the Belsen commandant, powerful, thug-like Josef Kramer, expert in the methods of mass murder. To a British reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Awful! | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Paramount didn't borrow Warner's Bogart for a part that Bogart might have filled and they have done better with MacMurray who isn't quite so stony. Bogart makes a good detective, a good thug, and a good martyr, but the boy with the light comedy past comes through with the best performance of his career...

Author: By J. L. T., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/14/1944 | See Source »

Brains still win, and the Germans had the best brains. A World War I subaltern in the Kaiser's Armies, who later became Hitler's personal thug, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has become one of the most competent soldiers of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lessons from Defeat | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Typical of the operators' bullyboys was Bill ("Thug") Johnson, who explained to the committee that he was employed to go out "thugging." The term, Mr. Johnson explained, meant to go "hunting for union men, organizers and so forth in Harlan County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace in Harlan County? | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chivalry in San Quentin | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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