Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looks, in fact, like the popular conception of a gangster, model 1929. He has bright, wild eyes, and his movements suggest spring steel; he talks out of the corner of his mouth. He dresses with a glaring, George Raft kind of snazziness-rich, dark shirts and white figured ties, with ring and cuff links that almost always match. He had, at last count, roughly $30,000 worth of cuff links. "He has the Polo Grounds for a closet," says a friend. In one compartment hang more than too suits. In another there are 50 pairs of shoes, each shoe...
...pizza altogether. That sturdy little woman could stand up to anything, come Hague or firewater, and minded everybody else's business along with plenty of her own. Dolly, who says she started out as a practical nurse, was soon helping Marty run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson and Fourth. She sang at church socials ("Dolly was a barrel of fun"), faithfully turned up at the Democratic political meetings, and assisted at a lot of neighborhood births. In a few years she was a power in her part of town, and in 1909 Mayor Griffin made...
...started hooking candy from the corner store," Frankie recalls. "Then little things from the five-and-dime, then change from cash registers, and finally, we were up to stealing bicycles." Pretty soon Frank was involved in some rough gang wars. He got so good at planning jobs that his awe-struck henchmen called him "Angles," and he had plenty of bad examples to follow, pretty close to home. The streets he played in were full of bootleggers and triggermen; there were even a couple of neighborhood gang killings...
...Fair Dealers in Congress, none has a more durable record of sniping at business than Brooklyn's Veteran Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. Back in 1922 he was elected on an antidepression, anti-Big Business platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost...
Caveat Emptor. In Lubbock, Texas, Detectives Jack Hunnicutt and Claude Keaton spotted a man selling suspicious-looking bottles for $1 each to street-corner passersby, followed him to his cache, discovered an additional 30 bottles, gave up the investigation when they proved to contain 100% tap water...