Word: hoodlum
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...Sierra) knows the underworld jungle and has a keen ear for its talk. In his study of Arky's misplaced loyalty, he even tries to find some human motive behind the squalor of his story. In the search, he overdoes the idea that most of Arky's hoodlum ways can be explained by a poverty-stricken boyhood. Otherwise, the book is almost as unsentimental as Frank Costello on television...
...trial, Bogart's chief witness plunges out the window to his death. The assistant D. A. pores over the record of the case to dig out a clue to another witness. The camera goes back with him, introducing one hoodlum after another. As each tells his own story, the movie backtracks again to picture it. Bogart finds his clue just in time for a wham-bam finish...
...people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom...
Nothing Sacred. In Nashville, a hoodlum made off in broad daylight with a $50 radio from the police station...
...Cemetery, something more needed saying. The Rev. Raymond Jackson, vice-chancellor of the Kansas City Roman Catholic Diocese, stepped forward and read an official statement to set Catholics and non-Catholics straight on why his church had seen fit to give a Christian burial to a notorious hoodlum...