Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From it he plucks forth odd trinkets worth anywhere up to $50,000 apiece. There never was a burglary at his Chelsea home, nor did the old gentleman ever fear one. All of his pieces are too well known to experts to be of any value to the underworld...
...ranch. In a way it was a relief to Vridar when he was drafted into the Army, a disappointment when the Armistice came before he was sent overseas. The War over, he got a job in a garage, slipped-gradually into bootlegging, rubbed shoulders with a seedy underworld. When one night he almost "killed his infant_son in a rage, the shock turned him again to his almost-forgotten purpose. He turned over a leaf, promised Neloa to be "a good citizen, strong and solid, like a pile of beef. I'll be going to church soon...
...audience of Democratic prosecutors, police chiefs and social workers, but to such tail-coated Republicans as onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Like other Presidents before him, Mr. Roosevelt cried for national cooperation in a national war against the underworld, declared: "Crime is a symptom of social disorder. Widespread increase in capacity to substitute order for disorder is the remedy...
...other picture, "The Million Dollar Ransom" was written by Damon Runyon for those who like their underworld straight. A benevolent beer-baron gives his life for his daughter and a millionaire kid. The moustached heavies are as sinister as you could ask and if you have no violent objection to Andy Devine's whining, and if you can endure underworld and Damon slang you will find the picture passable but unsafe...
...survey suggests that since an investigator eventually becomes too well-known in the underworld of one locality to be of further service there, the Boston police department should take steps to cooperate with either large city departments in the exchange of special investigators of this type...