Word: underworld
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...Even his underworld name is perfect: Papillon-because he has a butterfly tattooed on his chest...
...skill and dogged determination of Conductor Colin Davis it might not have happened at all. For over a century, the French publishing house of Choudens owned the score but refused to release it. At one point, English Musicologists Cecil Gray and W.J. Turner even tried to hire the Parisian underworld to burglarize Choudens. The attempt failed. Fortunately, the Bibliotheque Nationale owned Berlioz's manuscripts. British Musicologist Hugh MacDonald began the immense job of deciphering them and in 1969, the German firm of Barenreiter was able to publish the full score. The first complete performance in French-with Conductor Davis...
...measure is "as full of unconstitutional, unjust and unwise provisions as a mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after a special meeting in Chicago, expressed reservations about parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan, the mobster measure was expanded with the help of Justice Department staffers and whisked through the Senate in January. Legal experts have now detected a startling number of sleeper clauses. Their objections have provoked close scrutiny from the House Judiciary Committee...
...flashy week for pennyweighters-underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago...
...York, I was also ready to be on my guard against any suspicious underworld person who might try to steal my wallet, which had fallen out of my pocket by accident the night before- a little too easily for me to trust the city. And above all, I would become literally catatonic at the sight of anyone or anything black, from a janitor to a cat. After all, didn't they have good reason for keeping all of the black people in San Diego away from the highways and south of Division Street...