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Word: pajamas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time later the manager of the hotel found the pajama-clad, tuberculosis-ravaged, bullet-torn figure of Jack ("Legs") Diamond collapsed near the elevator, where he had dragged himself with the aid of a "coupla shots o' whiskey." Diamond was about the best Manhattan could boast in the way of a big-time gangster. They rushed him in a dying state to the Polyclinic Hospital in a private ambulance under the care of his private physician. When the police learned of the affair, half the detectives in the city jumped into the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rat Eat Rat | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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