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...still thought his city "would be a better place." But in New York, almost everyone seemed pleased about it. Wealthy U.N. neighbors-to-be foresaw sky-rocketing real-estate investments. Elimination of the slaughterhouses would remove some of the soot which now makes the district the city's dirtiest. Storekeepers were bound to profit...
...draw, an ideal trigger man. But off-duty he drank too much, and talked too much. One day in Cheyenne he boasted to a U.S. marshal that he had clipped young Willie Nickell, a homesteader's son, at 300 yards. "It was the best shot and the dirtiest trick I ever done." Hidden court stenographers were listening in the next room for just such a confession. The marshal swore out a warrant for Tom's arrest. The sheriff picked him up in the lobby of the Inter-Ocean Hotel the next...
...Philosopher-Playwright Sartre the "city of open sky" was close to nature and its violence-"the storms overflow its streets. . . . Nature's weight is so heavy on it that this most modern of cities is also the dirtiest. . . . When I go out I walk in blackish snow. . . . Even in . . . my apartment a hostile, deaf, mysterious Nature assails me. I seem to be camping in the heart of a jungle swarming with insects. . . . There are the roaches that run through my kitchen, the elevators that make my heart contract...
Major General Charles P. Gross, chairman of New York City's Board of Transportation, preferred to be literal up to a point. "New York is by all odds the dirtiest city in the world," he declared. "You will find . . . more dirt than there is in Moscow, Copenhagen, Paris and Brussels combined...
...better job, as bartender in a speakeasy. A little later he became a prize fighter at Ridgewood Grove, a dingy club behind the Myrtle Avenue car barns. As in his earlier endeavors, he was an instant success. He would battle a buzz saw. Also, he was one of the dirtiest fighters the ring ever produced, and thousands came to see what he would try next...