Word: gangsterisms
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...week later, Daniel O'Leary, gangster, was spending a night with his mistress. Five men entered their rendezvous. They fired a salvo into the sleeping O'Leary. The woman went away with them...
When the shooting began, pedestrians screamed and scurried. Two men had walked up behind Gangster Lombardo and stood there emptying automatic revolvers at close range. When the shooting stopped, the crowds closed in again to stare at the victims and gabble at the police. The police caught one man, rushing along the street with a revolver in his hand. But he was Mr. Lombardo's other bodyguard, one Joseph Lolordo. The assassins had put their guns in their pockets, mingled with the mob, vanished...
...taken for granted that the Lombardo killing was retaliation for the death, two months ago of Frankie Uale (Yale), Brooklyn gangster (TIME, July 9). But, as in some 215 other Chicago murders during the past two years, no conviction was probable. Chicago police philosophy is to let the thugs shoot each other up and devil take the hindmost innocent bystander...
...plot consists of Father Murray's struggle to keep Son Murray from "throwing" the championship for the sake of an expert brunette (Actress Suzanne Caubaye) who gets her orders from a masterminded nightclub gangster (Actor Robert Gleckler of Broadway fame). Father Murray has the assistance of an Honest Home Girl (Actress Harriet MacGibbon) and a High-Minded Sportswriter...
...racket is a trade or vocation which is loud, bold and often illegal. For example, there is the bootlegging racket, the murder-for-money racket, the dry cleaning racket (in which Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was hired to protect a group of dry cleaners). A racketeer is one who practices a racket...