Word: swank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, tough Tony Accardo, reigning boss of the old Capone mob, bought himself a magnificent 22-room mansion (original cost: $500,000), in the swank suburb of River Forest, hired 20 decorators to fix up the place...
Chicago's Tony Accardo, for example, lives in swank River Forest, conducts his operations at the head of a long director's table in a big basement room lined with an antique gun collection. One Christmas Accardo decorated a 40-ft. tree on his lawn, installed electrically driven skaters, which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone...
Inviting Burglars. In New Orleans, Kefauver drove into town past big neon signs advertising Costello's swank Beverly Club. New Orleans is the domain of Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and of Carlos ("The Little Man'') Marcello, a squat Sicilian who controls the racing wire for Chicago's Capone syndicate. Marcello is a partner with Kastel and Costello in the Beverly Club, owns a jukebox company, slot machines and a fleet of shrimping vessels. Last year he publicly pistol-whipped a man in the heart of New Orleans, but not a single witness...
...last nine months he was with the sheriff's office, George told the committee, he was a collector for a group of deputies and received $800 weekly to be split up. He said that $300 of the money came from the S & G Syndicate, $300 from the swank Sunny Isles Casino and $200 from the operation of bolita, the Cuban numbers game. Occasional raids were made on these establishments, but only after the management had been tipped off first. In the period, George estimated he took in about $50,000 and kept...
...swank Kensington garden party, Frankie Sinatra met Princess Margaret, sang a bang-up rendition of If I Loved You, at her request. During their 15-minute chat that followed, the Princess told the crooner not to work too hard. Said The Voice: "She floored me by knowing so much about music...