Word: gangsterized
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...Mario (real name: Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) was born and grew up in South Philadelphia. As part of the self-made Lanza legend, he sometimes likes to shock friends or interviewers by painting a lurid picture of his old neighborhood as a hotbed of crime, where stray gangster bullets might have nipped his career at any moment. Outraged by some of the tall tales, South Philadelphians once hurled stones and tomatoes at Lanza's grandfather's home, and made a public ceremony of smashing all the Lanza records they could round up. Mario took comfort in the thought that...
...second-hand stores had served as Democratic headquarters for Kansas City's Second Ward. The address, after Fifteenth Street was renamed in 1949: 716-718 Truman Road. But things had never been the same since the morning of April 6, 1950, when the bullet-riddled bodies of Gangster Charlie Binaggio, boss of the district, and his chief henchman, Charles Gargotta, were found there. At party meetings, somebody was always pointing out exactly where Binaggio's body was found (facing the big portrait of Native Son Truman), and where Gargotta lay, a few steps away. This had a quieting...
...report that Perón had arrested his atomic energy expert, Dr. Ronald Richter (TIME, May 28). One Perónista newspaper raged at A.P. as "anti-Argentine." Another, in a curious echo of Pravda's familiar vocabulary, blasted the agency as a practitioner of "gangster journalism" and an agent in a "persistent and infamous plan to attack the Argentine republic...
...taking the "Courtin' Time" seriously. At any rate, he does the best job with his part, which is, of course, the best in the show. He kicks and tosses the hand props around, slides down ropes, and does gymnastics. Once or twice he even lapses into his movie-gangster argot. Some of the better supporting performances are handled by Billie Worth, Effle Afton, and Katherine Anderson...
...racetrack tout known as the Lemon Drop Kid, Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning...