Word: crookdom
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains the cream of German crookdom. Traditionally a tithe of the loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers are richly fed when Club members get arrested. Every so often despatches tell that the Ever Loyals have held another unexpected, cataclysmic midnight convention in Berlin. Always on these occasions they appear...
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