Word: tormentor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down Coney Island way who love to fish of an evening. A tough young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor. Once they do, everybody becomes as happy as a clam at high tide...
...then things began to go wrong. The boss's son was an ugly customer, and he had just married a floozy who kept him at a white heat of suspicion. When he picked on Lennie, the big half-wit got so panicky that he seized his little tormentor's hand, crushed it nearly to bits. George managed to get them out of that scrape, but when Lennie accidentally broke the floozy's neck, there was only one thing George could do to remedy that. Knowing where Lennie was hiding, George got to him ahead of the posse...
...dieted herself into an alarming slimness. And one day she told Franz Joseph she simply had to go away. Hurt but anxious, he let her go. After that she hardly came home except for visits. On one of them she sat at old Sophie's deathbed. Her tormentor out of the way, Sisi never even attempted to take her place as the real Empress of Austria. By this time she was as unpopular with the Austrians as she was beloved in Hungary. At 36 Sisi was a grandmother. She celebrated by sneaking out to a masked ball, picking...
Irked when a naval officer danced up to him in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove and abused first his cigar, then his character, Band Leader Benjamin Anzelvitz (Ben Bernie) dropped to the dance floor, knocked out his tormentor...
...them, killed three. Then he hid in central Texas and, with his cousin "Simp" Dixon, killed two more, which made him a popular Texan in the eyes of ex-Confederates. At 16 Hardin, mocked by a desperado who stole his gun and boots, salved his pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed him on the spot. When he fell in love a rival tried...