Word: mobster
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...immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything from bird calls to an imitation of the surf...
...hustled to the airport, was Guatemala-bound before he could phone his wife or pick up a toothbrush. Last week, while the American Civil Liberties Union attacked the "to talitarian tactics" of the Immigration agents, the Internal Revenue Service slapped a $835,000 tax lien on the squat mobster, charged him with leaving the country without a permit...
...unknown writer, Arthur Flegenheimer. It is one of the more recondite items in this anthology of Dwight Macdonald, critic, polemicist and New Yorker staff writer. To see just how recondite it is, the reader must not miss the footnote, in which it is disclosed that the obscure Flegenheimer is Mobster Dutch Schultz, and that the Stein "parody" is a police stenographer's transcript of his dying delirium. Such thimbleriggery is a fair sample of the tactics used by Macdonald to create, rather than compile, the best anthology of parody ever printed...
...They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck. The diminutive mobster lay dead with his head on her lap, one chubby hand still clutching the wheel and the blood from three head wounds slowly staining his natty blue silk suit...
...guys." Expounding on income tax, O'Brien advised the barristers that the only way to come out even is to "borrow money from your friends." As other West Coast lawyers snickered and A.B.A. big shots fumed, the word spread: Gagster Belli's tax expert was Mobster Mickey ("I'm rehabilitated") Cohen, whose courtroom experience includes hearing a judge sentence him to five years for income-tax evasion...