Word: rackets
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...Racket (RKO Radio) is Hollywood's answer to the Kefauver crime hearings, which showed millions of TV fans that the truth is often stranger than Hollywood fiction. Not to be outdone by the truth, Producer Edmund Grainger now strikes a blow for the moviemakers by offering a big-city crime fable as outlandish as oversimplification and exaggeration can make...
...brain of U.S. crime, who makes and breaks judges, prosecutors and gangland Gauleiters from a real-estate office in the middle of town, is known to the cast of The Racket only as "the Old Man." If anyone knows his name, no one mentions it, and nobody, including the audience, ever gets a look at him. The invisible Old Man gives the best performance in the trashiest major production of the year...
...preparations for dinner began at 6:30 p.m. and it was 9 p.m. before we could sit down to eat. "I've only been in this racket for a couple of weeks," Al whispered. The somewhat awe-stricken guests sat down without a word...
...only thing that will wake a piglet is the deep, rumbling grunt that the mother sow gives when she "lets down" her milk. When they hear it, the more alert pigs wake up and scuttle squealing to the teat line. As they suckle, they squeal with joy, and their racket wakes the other pigs...
...back of a chair to his parents on Sunday afternoons. He always had "a good loud voice," and he thinks his voice got him his first pulpit. In his first year at Newton Theological Institution, Baptist Potter astonished the congregation at Dover, N.H. by preaching right through the racket of a Boston & Maine train passing by just outside. Promptly they extended him a call-provided he would get ordained and married. He obliged, and took over his first parish...