Word: underworlders
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...once lavished upon 'legging is now employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff is usually 600-to-1. Moreover, the runner generally gets 10% of the winnings as commission and an additional tip is in order. Welching is common, and since...
...Isle of Fury" is a scenario writer's nightmare, containing every possible dramatic situation with the exception of the World War. Margaret Lindsay and Humphrey Bogart, he of the underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives...
Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...
...Give My Life" is pure melodrama at the end of which there should not be a dry eye in the audience. Tom Brown and Francis Drake are two love-birds who work in a gangsters' nigh-club. Comes a reform governor who cracks down on the underworld, and in self-defense the gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell...
...days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath to study. . . . But by night each man was back in his doomed sector of a horror-stricken Front...