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...Capone went to Chicago as bodyguard for Johnny Torrio, hired by Jim Colosimo, big restaurant and brothel man. Prohibition started to create a public demand for liquor. Gangs were formed to supply the demand, to beat off rivals. Capone began as a brothel keeper, which started his police record with a $50 fine. In 1923 Colosimo was murdered. Torrio took command of the liquor and vice gang, Capone becoming his No. 1 assistant. Fierce was the hostility between the South Side gang under Torrio and the North Side gang under Dion O'Banion. In 1924 O'Banion was shot down...
...that happen?' They answered: 'It was an accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant.' So they were both shot by a firing squad of their own company." In Béthune Graves saw queues of 150 men lined up before the army brothel. "Each woman served nearly a battalion of men every week for as long as she lasted...
...Glass Slipper. Kitchen-Wench Irma, nude bather, kitten's wetnurse, joins a brothel when the Mr. Sipos whom she loves and serves marries another. Discovering his wife unfaithful, Mr. Sipos says, "I mayn't have an automobile, but I have honor." He casts off the wife, retrieves Irma...
...married each other after meeting during the rehearsals of Clarence, nine years ago. Alfred Lunt went to college in Waukesha, Wis. His wife's name is Lynn Lily Louise Lunt. The Street Wolf is a young agent provocateur whose looks lure not-unwilling chippies to a Greenwich Village brothel. It goes on to tell about bordellos, approaches incestuous situations until one sighs for the pure, clear air of Rabelais. Worst of all, it is banally written...
...city representative of small-town theology and morality. He would, of course, attack Gov. Smith. But he could not say that Gov. Smith is immoral. Detectives have for a decade, hounded Gov. Smith's present and past. Apparently Gov. Smith has never visited a brothel. Apparently Gov. Smith has never spent so much as an hour in compromising circumstances with any woman. Therefore, Dr. Straton's attack must be "However clean . . . nevertheless...