Word: moran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except a fainting spell which overcame a Mrs. Nellie Stringer of Brooklyn who suffers from sleeping sickness...
Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending...
...BRING THAT UP??Moran & Mack present their famed Southern sound effects...
...BRING THAT UP? (Moran & Mack)?Famous black face badinage...
Probably Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran carry off the honors over the other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...