Word: rousting
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Continuing the small war with the Los Angeles Police Department that he reopened some weeks ago when he sudsed his soul in Mike Wallace's TV brain laundry, onetime Desperado Mickey Cohen, now a gentleman florist, protested an $11 ticket for obstructing traffic ("Another roust on the part of the Police Intelligence Department"), appealed to a jury of his peers, lost...
...lives in quiet, sporting affluence, with a country cottage at Long Beach and a town apartment near the northwest corner of Central Park, appeared with his lawyer at the D. A.'s office to submit to arrest. It was the crowning sensation of a three-year campaign to roust racketeers out of Manhattan. It was also the biggest act yet in the career of Thomas Edmund Dewey, now 36, who three years ago, when Governor Lehman appointed him special rackets prosecutor in New York City, was an obscure Republican lawyer, who seven months ago, on the strength...
...behest short of the U. S. Supreme Court. Then he went out, bought $2,000 worth of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., to furnish his mansion, went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood of their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone and send him away, surveyed a high wall which has been built around the Capone house; reflected upon the quickness and brutality of trigger-fingers from Chicago. Mayor J. N. Lummus Jr., of Miami Beach wondered what to do. His real estate firm had sold the house...
Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...