Word: underworld
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...have Prohibition ten years more, this land will be ruled by gangs of underworld rats...
...other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending on the number of convictions obtained) are set on his head. The underworld "grapevine" reported that potent underworldlings would pay double that amount for his delivery to them. In full cry detectives and gangsters deployed for a mid-continent man hunt...
...underworld calls Badman Burke "professor." He is a scientific felon, a specialist in safe door melting, wire tapping, hijacking, disguises. In his St. Joseph hideout were found chemistry and metallurgy textbooks, also 200 thumb-greyed detective novels, with criminals' blunders underlined...
When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved...
...faced, little 24-year-old Badman Nannery. A year ago he and his pal Edward ("Snake") Ryan escaped from Sing Sing by clambering through a transom in the prison kitchen, scaling the wall, swimming away down the Hudson river. Ryan was recaptured and returned to Sing Sing. From the underworld came word that Nannery has sworn to get Ryan out again...