Word: fusco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unferocious. During Prohibition, Lane became the Daily News gangster specialist. He was creating an Oxie technique then. He snickered at the gangsters by inventing unferocious nicknames for them: "Greasy Thumb" Gusik, "Loudmouth" Levine, "Violet" Fusco. (Fusco's pals thereafter sent him bunches of violets...