Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States supported the raids but strongly criticized their method. Governor Long thereupon accused Col. Ewing of being a protector of the underworld, which so infuriated the aristocratic Colonel that his newspaper attacked the Governor's own doings on the night of the "stripping" raids. A party had been given that evening by Alfred M. Danziger, President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. Governor Long had attended and from there was supposed to have issued orders to his raiders at the very time, it was alleged, that he was being entertained by a troup of jazzy show girls. The States...
Chicago's police commissioner, William F. Russell, who lately staged a spectacular round-up of the Chicago underworld-and then released his catch-professed great fury. "It's a war to the finish!" he cried. "I've never known a challenge like this. . . . We're going to make this the knell of gangdom in Chicago." Between Chicago's police and the Federal agents assigned to make Chicago dry, exists a state of feeling not unlike the inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital...
...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
...spite of a new setting Bancroft shows that he is the same man that took the country by storm last winter in his, series of appearances in underworld film, and the part has been built up to fit him. Collar always open, even in the midst of the smoothest looking bunch of stock brokers that could be gathered together in Hollywood, he is given opportunity to do everything but get into a good old fashioned fight...
...submitted to such nervous strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...