Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good friends among Hollywood's starmakers and he knew his way around Chicago's underworld and how to get in to see Al Capone.* Finally, he got on the good side of the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee who could get him two major generals (Alden H. Waitt and William N. Porter) to gambol at his daughter's wedding party, could get Army-Navy "E" awards for his munitions plants, and could give and carry orders that Garsson's 27-year-old son, Joseph H. ("Bud") Garsson, was to be taken care...
Arbiters of culture now are Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, who runs Pierre Monteux's San Francisco Symphony, Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who campaigns for sanity in art. Faces come & go around the Palace Hotel bar, John's Rendezvous, Golden Gate Park: "Jake" Ehrlich, attorney for the underworld; Bill Hurley, Third Street saloonkeeper who ran for mayor with the slogan: "Get up early and vote for Hurley; stay in bed and be misled." Henry Kaiser rides importantly back & forth over crowded Bay Bridge to Oakland...
...frisky Washington Senators, who have burnt up the spring-exhibition circuit with 21 wins and ten defeats, could be kept out of the American League first division. Almost sure shots for the second-division underworld were the White Sox, the Browns (whose brief period of glory-the pennant in 1944 -was definitely over) and Connie Mack's Athletics...
...Mardi Gras saturnalia of "Kings, Baby Dolls. Zulus and Queens'' (Baby Dolls are Negro trulls, Zulus are their men friends who elect a Negro King of the Mardi Gras). It ends with "Superstitions," "Colloquialisms" and "Customs." In between, the book's 581 pages are acrawl with underworld or otherworld manifestations...
...pound of pure opium ("hop"), which used to cost $75 in the U.S. underworld, now brings as much as $700. The price of pure heroin ("aitch") has gone up from $60 an ounce...