Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major Whalen accomplishment was decentralization of the force. The major lack of accomplishment seemed to be a lack of tangible progress in the Rothstein murder case, which occasioned the Whalen appointment...
...resultant battle. At 3 a. m. appeared Commissioner Whalen, "worked on the case" till 8 a. m. He then attended 9 o'clock mass in Manhattan. He then reviewed 800 Postal Telegraph boys at City Hall. He then went to the West 20th Street station on another murder case. He then accompanied his daughter on a gallop through Central Park. He then went home (No. 43 Fifth Avenue), slept...
...evening many thousands of mediocre human beings flock together, drawn by a picturesque, gregarious invitation. In degree no more clever or sinister than the main street of a village, it has lately been advertised more widely than ever before by columnists, playwrights and criminals. One Way Street celebrates the murder of a golden-haired drug-peddler, one of Broadway's ,least notable miscreants, by an alien rustic whose sister had learned to punch herself with dope...
Before the author of the murder is ascertained there are gruesome scenes of crime solution. Riff-raff from the pleasure caves, also a butler and a financier, are grilled by policemen. Not alone because of the alacrity with which the criminal's name is hit upon, the ceremonies of detection seem patterned upon the ways of the theatre rather than the ways of life. One Way Street is a melodramatic stereotype and its most exciting moment occurs when the audience sees, dangling brightly from- the end of a trunk, the shining hair of the murdered drug-girl...
...seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...