Word: camorra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...entire motive behind the 'cabal,' now the caucus, has been the frustration of every social interest-of truth itself, whenever it threatens to interfere with special interest. It has the motive of the Camorra, the Black Hand, the Fascismo, to prevent the expression of ideas that question the infallibility of special judgments, regardless of their conformity with the facts of life or the laws and principles embedded in the nature of things, social, economic and industrial...
...players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...