Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...printed his Page One on a green newsprint, and circulation climbed. When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they liked being called prostitutes. They didn't, and the Herald picked up thousands of canceled Express subscriptions. In 1931, the slowed-down Express merged with Hearst's Herald, and two years later Campbell became...
...disapprove of the life they lead, but still it's a perfectly credible life. Not that the film lacks any violence; on the contrary, there's a lot. But you quite literally always know what the shooting's about. "Back Streets of Paris" treats the activities of the French underworld in a frank and unassuming way; some scenes are so natural they might easily have been taken with a concealed camera...
...official was mixed up in the big-time drug traffic. Last week after he stepped off the plane from Lima, waiting detectives nabbed Rafael Menacho Vicente, 55, Cuban consul to Peru. In his diplomatic pouch was a package containing two pounds of cocaine, worth around $10,000 in the underworld...
...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
Against a flyblown Gay-Nineties backdrop, Lil queens it over a cosily archaic underworld of cokies and floozies, shoplifters and white slavers. She loves passionately and profitably, conceals a heart of gold under a breastplate of diamonds, commits murder once, gets away with it often, and renews-at the end of Act I-her hospitable invitation to come up and see her some time...