Word: carly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Just back from Havana whence the Cuban police had hustled him away, Capone, his brother John and two friends were motoring on Biscayne Boulevard when two detectives stopped their car, haled them to headquarters. There they were fingerprinted, photographed. From Capone was taken $1,161 in cash, an $8,000 diamond. Then they were locked up for "investigation...
...mother told me," Queen Mary once said resignedly to a Lady-in-Waiting, "that it was the People's right to look at us. I try to remember this when it would be a luxury to draw the curtains of my car. I hope that neither George nor I may ever selfishly deprive our people...
...Shrewd Move. Certainly there was violence enough last week in India (see map). Riots small and great broke out in the chief commercial cities of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay. At Peshawar on the northwestern frontier, in circumstances which censorship obscured, two soldiers were burned to death in an armored car ignited by natives. But most frightful of all were atrocities at Sholapur. This city - a cotton-spinning metropolis of 12,000 - was for a time virtually ruled by various mobs, some followers of the Saint, others a nondescript rabble out to loot while looting was good. After 50 deaths...
...your hands! Get out of your car! Lie down in the road...
Since his entry into the realm of light and "situation" comedy Mr. Dix is a much improved actor over the Dix of racing car melodramas. Tinged with a bit of Shavian deviltry the play depicts the plight of an electrician who for the sum of a few thousand dollars is willing to lower himself and become a gentleman. For some reason, and, she is fairly pleasant, he gets all mixed up in his singleness of purpose. The story ends happily, with Mr. Dix still an electrician. The picture is an amusing satire on the Ward McAllister type...