Word: underworld
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...Underworld. On the fourth night after their baby's disappearance the Lindberghs, whose legal adviser is Col. Henry Breckinridge, Wilsonian Assistant Secretary of War, descended suddenly and startlingly to the underworld for assistance. The designation by the nation's hero and the daughter of a onetime Ambassador, of Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, two Manhattan 'leggers, to be their accredited agents was widely viewed as a desperate admission that the nation's police system had knuckled under to the nation's criminals. It was at this point that prominent gangsters began trying to enter the case in pursuit of either...
...Another character with underworld connections flashed across the horizon of the Lindbergh case during its first fortnight. He was swart, Semitic Morris Rosner, one-time Government operative. Congresswoman Ruth Pratt of New York was supposed to have been one of his sponsors. Mr. Rosner's connection with the case, however, paled into obscurity when the three Norfolkers came on the scene during the last week of March...
...bonus for exclusive photos," explains Mercado. For Dizon, the most prolific source of these was Lorega, where he knew how to track down local methamphetamine pushers and illegal gambling operators. According to the Sun.Star Cebu, another local paper, Dizon began the dangerous game of exploiting his underworld knowledge. The Sun.Star Cebu reported that he regularly fed information to the police, enabling them, for example, to successfully raid a drug dealer's house. He then went along on the busts, bagging his exclusive photos in the process. Indeed, Mercado says Dizon's colleagues often wondered how he knew that police operations...
...nostalgia-filled period epic adaptation of Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha? Check. Big pseudo-political Steven Spielberg movie about the 1972 Munich Olympics? Check again, with the bonus round of remakes (The Producers, All the King’s Men) and a sequel to Underworld! Finally...
...made, to be diabolical, to spaced-out rock—the Queens of the Stone Age in fast forward with a sprinkling of stadium-sized riffs that would make Eddie Van Halen proud. The frantic, fervent horns still make opportune appearances throughout the proceedings, assisting the rollercoaster-through-the-underworld vibe ably and even veering into jazz-style improvisations at some points...