Word: mayhemic
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Unlike the Brooklyn fans whom he ad dresses, Sportscaster Barber is never moved to murder or mayhem when the Dodgers lose. "With me," he says, "base ball is a business. I cannot afford to get too emotional about...
Reporter Dolan covered such mayhem & murder affairs as the Hall-Mills Case, the Snyder-Gray killing, the shooting of Arnold Rothstein. To get pictures of Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder, he hired a seaplane, zoomed so close to them as they entered Sing Sing that he almost knocked their heads off. Celebrated was one of his leads about an Indian Princess who got entangled in a murder. Wrote he: "Princess Red Lilac may soon ride the White Man's Thunderbolt...
...pitchers who really deserved the medals. During an early-season ten-game winning streak, five rookie pitchers had accounted for five victories. Most outstanding was Sam Nahem (rhymes with mayhem), who pitched a three-hitter in his first big-league game, chalked up three more victories in three more starts...
Although the Metropolitan District Commission, which polices the Drive, is not acutely worried over the impending mayhem, local sadists are planning to be on hand to see the carnage which should result from the impact of two contrarily-moving Panzer divisions...
...popularity of such sustained mayhem has been thoroughly tested: this is the sixth cinema version of the Jack London novel in 30 years. To man the unpleasant cast (only woman is Ida Lupino), the ranks of Hollywood hoodlums were culled for such experienced mischief-makers as Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield and Gene Lockhart. Guided by the extravagant hand of Director Michael Curtiz, The Sea Wolf's latest treatment stresses the psychological quirks of Wolf Larsen (Robinson), skipper of the scavenger ship Ghost, a sadistic tyrant who likes to curl up with a volume of Milton's poems...