Word: gangsterisms
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...empire that Gangster Al Capone had built with the help of the Tommy gun and the dum-dum bullet in the back had a strange air of flaccid respectability in 1950. Marty the Ox died in bed without a single bullet hole in his hide. And in the rare places where the shakedown still prevailed, it was costing a merchant as little as $1 a week to insure his plate-glass windows against a well-heaved brick. The ugly libel was afloat that Chicago had turned sissy and petty larcenous...
...sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including "a rabbit grower, a lawyer, a credit bureau, a purse seiner, a florist, a public stenographer, a dentist, a laboratory of clinical medicine and a gangster...
...noted sadly that his real expensive model in all-bronze ("Sell quite a few to Chicago-call it our gangster model") was no more. "Those guys will have to settle for wood," said he with finality...
...Ocean Drive (Columbia] is a gangster melodrama unconvincingly disguised as a documentary crusade against an $8-billion-a-year gambling racket. It was filmed, say its pressagents, under threats of violence from the underworld and with the protection of police. It begins with an endorsement by Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley, hailing it for informing the public "of the meaning of that innocent $2 bet at the candy stand." One point in the picture's favor: it is full of interesting electronic gadgets (e.g., walkie-talkies, relay amplifiers) illustrating the illegal transmission of betting information from...
...book starts promisingly enough when an enraged elephant on an English circus train flails about with its trunk in the cab of a nearby locomotive and sends a passenger train off on a wild, wreck-climaxed run. Just before the crash, a U.S. gangster type slips his revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...