Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murder; in two years, 20 unsolved cases had collected on the books. Democratic Leader Frank V. Kelly asked him to run for Kings County (Brooklyn) district attorney. He did, and was elected. Two years later he was a famous man; he had exposed and broken the notorious criminal ring, Murder, Inc., had sent seven of its members to the electric chair...
Furthermore, it seemed very doubtful whether the bill was workable and enforceable-and would achieve its aim. Canada had outlawed the Communist Party-and then had to deal with a Red spy ring anyway. Canadian Communists had merely formed the Labor Progessive Party. Outlawing or suppressing a malignant party was perhaps a logical action. But the democratic way to deal with the Communists was to get and keep them out in the open, where they could be seen, recognized and observed...
...waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice boomed excitedly: "Gorgeous George...
With his mincing ways, his curls and his 88 fancy bathrobes, George is plainly a ring villain. His "secret weapon": bobby-pins (he calls them Georgie-pins) which he sometimes pulls from his golden hair and pretends to poke into his opponent's impervious thighs...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...