Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...
Capone, secure behind his bulletproof vest, his gunmen, his cordon of attorneys, his wall of alibis, was beyond the law. He was said to have $15,000,000 set aside just to grease his way out of trouble. He was arrested and questioned about the killing of Johnny Duffy, and released; arrested and questioned in the killing of Joe Howard, released again. He was indicted for violation of the Prohibition law in 1926; the indictment was quashed for lack of evidence. No one ever testified that the elegantly porcine hoodlum ever committed a murder...
...frontier, with the Nazi press barraging The Netherlands for not fighting harder against Great Britain's sea blockade, and with a possible Nazi threat about airplanes hanging over Queen Wilhelmina's head (see p. 17), The Netherlands High Command stepped on the starter of its defense engines, set them idling alertly though still strictly in neutral...
...lower-middle-class men machine-gunned on the streets of Munich on Nov. 9, 1923, in Adolf Hitler's abortive bid for power-had been scheduled at the traditional hour of 8:30. At 6, the Munich radio announced, without giving a reason, that the meeting had been set ahead half an hour...
There were no set speeches, no previously formulated accusations. Herr Hitler's first words about the Reichstag fire were stagy, forced, phony: "Das ist das Werk der Kommunisten." (This is the work of Communists.) This time his first statement was spontaneous, slangy, more relief than calculated vindictiveness: "Glück muss der Mensch haben." (A fellow has got to be lucky...