Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underworld gangs of Chicago, which have come in for so much newspaper comment and publicity in the past few months, are now put between the covers of a novel, and furnish such good entertainment, apparently, that they are the selection of the Literary Guild for their readers in the month of June. "Little Caesar", the first novel of W. R. Burnett, published by the Dial Press, is the new Baedeker to gangland, drawing chiefly on the shady side of the night clubs for its material...
...comfort . . . peace and plenty without opulence"); 6) Sunshine ("mildly stimulating"); 7) Verdante ("youth, freshness, unsophistication, innocence . . . only slightly warm, but definitely not cold"); 8) Aquagreen ("cool lakes in the northwoods"); 9) Turquoise ("peace, tranquility . . . calm tropical seas'"); 10) Azure ("sedate, reserved . . . slightly gloomy"); 11) Nocturne ("night shadows, despair, underworld"); 12) Purplehaze ("pronounced cooling effect"); 13) Fleur-de-lys ("pomp, dignity"); 14) Amaranth ("approaching sensuality and abandon"); 15) Caprice ("hilarious pink, carnival moods"); 16) Inferno ("burning buildings, panic, anarchy"); 17) Argent ("grey, everyday life...
...July 1926, in Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign...
...from the mayor's office by the Governor of Ohio as a result of an expose in the Canton News of graft and corruption at City Hall; his brother, E. E. Curtis, who was Director of Public Safety during the former regime of Mayor Curtis, organized the Canton underworld and exacted a toll of graft from all of its vicious activities and, when exposed by the News, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. I ask you to ponder the fact that Mayor Curtis is back on the job today at City Hall, the people's choice...
...next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities. The President had complained of increased crime but had not perceived that the drastic Jones (Five & Ten) Act, by sending up liquor prices and making convictions fewer, would cause the liquor trade to finance the underworld more handsomely than ever...