Word: camorra
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Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, branded on one swart cheek by the razor memento of the Neapolitan Camorra, was Al Capone...
...lawyer, Arthur Train has been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...
...Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn from its financial camorra, and the assumption is that a man's purse liea nearest his heart. Yet without even a Mencken editorial the magazine manages to decline gracefully. To the college student an article by one E. H. Orr on "The Impossibility of Education" is the piece do resistance. Mr. Orr's ideas...
Young Fascists, opening their New Year's copies of Tricolore, the Young Fascists' weekly magazine, were treated to a special contribution from the most prominent of all Young Fascists last week, the first instalment of a full length blood-and-thunder novel entitled La Camorra ("The Black Hand") by Vittorio Mussolini, II Duce's plump and swarthy 14-year...
Since the atheistic, anarchistic Camorra has been theoretically wiped out in Fascist Italy by Il Duce, Contributor Mussolini prudently lays the scene of his novel in New York. Tricolore's cover carries a gaudy lithograph showing a U. S. Coast Guard officer blazing away with a shotgun at a fleeing motorboat filled with scowling Black Handers...