Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smuggling Mexican heroin into California. In 1946 he opened the swanky $6,000,000 Flamingo Club in Las Vegas. He made the acquaintance of sultry, dark-haired Virginia Hill, 30, who was famed for parties that dazzled even Hollywood. The story was that thrice-married Virginia had a Brooklyn patron, a gang overlord who paid her handsomely to stay out of New York. Bugsy moved his shoes and suits over to Virginia's house...
Grad. In Meadville, Pa., Allegheny College awarded ex-G.I. Robert M. Rownd a diploma for an education that had been interrupted when he left his books and went off to soldier in the Civil War; the new A.B. is 102. In Brooklyn, proud Rose Altshuler, 67, was handed her grammar-school diploma, happily announced that she will start high school next fall, hopes to get through college by the time...
Eight years ago, in Tommy Gallagher's Crusade, James T. Farrell beat his readers over the head with a poleax to make much the same point. Novelist Harry Sylvester, born in Brooklyn and schooled at Notre Dame, is considerably subtler as a storyteller, though hardly more graceful as a writer. Aloysius ("Moon") Gaffney is no anti-Semitic bullyboy like Tommy Gallagher, but a young Manhattan Irishman with a Fordham law degree and large horizons. With luck he will soon become an Assemblyman in Albany, and perhaps in time even sit in the big chair in New York...
...they walk a guy like that, there's a jinx on them, and for all they know he'll hit a grand slam homer. Not Williams; it doesn't help his batting average. Not Lee Durocher; he's out of baseball for a while, my friends down in Brooklyn tell...
...Brooklyn exporter named James Boyle got so mad at the delay, said Kerschbaumer, that he burst in with two "very apparently gangster types" with guns, demanded 50,000 tons of steel "or else." Durham, a husky exMarine, happened to walk in just then and "removed them of their guns...