Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking little about her parentage, feeling much about herself. Her legal father prospered in railroads, enjoyed giving her every advantage. But even as a schoolgirl Nasa had a tendency to scratch and bite, see red instead of rosy. When she married, too young, it was the wrong man: a gambler, a roué, diseased. To her family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending...
Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy...
Paul Madvig was the city boss; he had risen to the top of the pile by patience and "guts." But it was Gambler Ned Beaumont's brains that helped him out of many a tough spot. Beaumont did not like the idea of Madvig's supporting aristocratic Senator Henry, thought still less of Madvig's sparking the Senator's daughter Janet. When the Senator's son was found murdered, suspicion soon fell on Madvig, but strangely enough failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little...
...Living is a comedy of German extraction. It uses four characters, the two most important being a gambler and the man whom he has made his valet in lieu of pressing for payment of gaming losses. After three acts of this entertainment, one concludes that hokum is the same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...
Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform...