Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked what he considered possible remedies for the present much-bruited "crime wave", he replied. "The fundamental problem lies in the attitude of the public, the newspapers, and state legislatures. After a vicious and cruel underworld character, like Remus, kills his wife brutally and in cold blood, the man in the street says, 'she got what she deserves...
Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
...field of romantic movies "Old San Francisco" starring Dolores Costello at the Metropolitan is far from the head of the list. If one is in an uncritical mood and merely wishes relaxation this fantastic story of San Francisco's underworld before the earthquake provides an amusing evening's entertainment...
...whenever- as so often happens-a Chicago thoroughfare is raked & riddled with machine-gun fire, Chicagoans take it for granted that Mr. Capone or his men have driven in again from their suburban headquarters at Cicero, Ill., to shoot down some rival gangster who has overstepped one of the underworld boundary lines which divide all Chicago into four parts (TIME, Mar 21). So many innocent bystanders have been shot down by gang warriors in Chicago that Chicagoans have great respect for Mr. Capone. The vice syndicate he is reputed to control is supposed to clear 75 millions per annum. "Scarface...
...City Gone Wild becomes, suddenly and unfortunately, in the midst of a great crackle of bullets and bad-words, a cinema gone mild. It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen. Eventually, the guilty are punished and the innocent spared...