Word: gangsterisms
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...territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...
...general manifesto, he announced: "I have lived in exile in 15 European countries in flight from the U. S. income-tax collectors. If Andorra refuses me, the only other European country I may visit is Liechtenstein. . . . I'm a real gangster, it's true, but I'm no criminal, and I want to remain what I have always been -honest. Europeans make a big mistake when they give honesty a meaning it never had. I've never kidnapped anybody...
...freed by the gangster because she was a captious blond...
...final spasm, still at the interview, Margo learns that her gangster brother has been shot in a prison break. Like a gallant trouper she chokes back her sobs, and the busy curtains close for keeps...
...minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle," he had a warm letter of introduction to a tongsman named Jimmy Wong...