Word: underworlders
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...mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean in what could be a mockery of the Jewish rites of forgiveness and absolution...
...really can't see what Schwartz is getting at. If he said anything about dope addiction, or alcoholism--or life--the lurid plot props would be perfectly reasonable. But he doesn't. The play has no application either to the underworld or to the world in general...
...Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an Irishman who was arrested many times for perpetrating such tricks...
...Vegas. Jim Saxon, who supervises the 4,700 U.S. national banks, charged as a starter that underworld activity, gambling and phony securities were behind the recent failure of chartered national banks in California, Colorado and Texas. He accused Don C. Silverthorne, president of the defunct San Francisco National Bank ($41 million in assets), of "gross misconduct and gross deception," said that he had exacted huge fees from some borrowers and then spent part of the money gambling in Las Vegas. "Untrue-and he knows it," replied Silverthorne, who gets his chance to testify this week...
...soloist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. But her career as a dancer came to an abrupt end in 1934. During a rehearsal at the Vienna State Opera House, a trap door opened suddenly, and Margherita plunged, she says, "like Eurydice into the underworld." She fell 14 feet onto an iron framework, breaking...