Word: underworlders
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With this childish underworld the teachers are unable to cope. The headmaster is enslaved to "the good of the school." Old Harbon, Coach Brittling and Mr. Feetling represent those faculty constants, the living corpse, the bullnecked coward, the moderately well-meaning...
...racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads of drugs from transatlantic liners pass through Customs gates. Odorous was the tale they told of a narcotics organization which coiled around the U. S., China, Europe, a story of underworld big business, dark deeds. Most of them pointed to Lepke: the big shot...
...career of one of the underworld's biggest and slimiest. The verdict made Lepke subject only to a two-year term, $10,000 fine, but opened wide the door to his conviction on the other counts, which involved 162 more years, $170,000 more in fines...
...Thin Man formula (exciting murder mystery plus fast, racy dialogue plus an equable, wisecracking, Scotch-bibbing married couple plus real people in a weird jumbling together of underworld and overworld) was good for several more workings...
Hilarious scene: Nick's underworld friends bringing their babies (about two dozen) to sing Happy Birthday to Nick Jr. When they proffer baloney, salami, beer and pop for refreshments, Nick sends for ice cream. "It will be up in a minute," he says. Queasy Nora's ageless comeback: "You're telling...