Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they had not reckoned with Oppenheim's suave agility in leading his knaves through smooth intricacies to their...
Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond...
...George Bancroft and Miss Evelyn Brent will probably go down through the ages as the players who made "Underworld," one of the tastiest cinematic hors d'oeuvres of all time. Meanwhile, however, they are devoting their efforts to making other and, it must be admitted with a wistful sigh, worse pictures. But since the decline from "Underworld" is of considerable extent their products...
...Whereas, the attempt at prohibition as embodied in the Volstead Act has hampered the medical profession, corrupted politics and made the underworld semi-respectable, thereby setting bad examples to the young who are receiving their training character; therefore...
...want to tell you people that the underworld is wonderfully organized. . . . It is so powerful that if my identity were known as I stand here, a bomb might be pitched at my feet...