Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Americanized restaurant at No. 1 Pell Street (nucleus of Manhattan's Chinatown) observed, noted, took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...
Central Square -- "Those Who Dance", the conventional underworld picture, and "Under a Texas Moon...
...Eastern Penitentiary in one of the two vans during the morning, carried to the new State Prison at Grater Ford (pop. 180), 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia. There he had been freed four hours earlier. A blue Buick sedan, it was reported, had streaked away into the underworld. "Al" Capone was again at large...
...Capone who started the murderous Chicago rackets which put the Underworld in Rolls-Royces and furnished their coffins with $15,000 orchid spreads. But he had had a large hand in racketeering's perfection. Born in Brooklyn of an Italian family, he was a "good boy" until he was 17. Then, in a Greenpoint pool room, he knocked down a stranger, thought he had killed him. A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight...
Playwright Robertson's melodrama follows the prevailing modes of theatrical violence; at times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious...