Word: underworlds
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...Alice Prin, but she was known in Montparnasse as Kiki. She came from the province of Burgundy, where she had been, as she said, "one of six little love children." She arrived in Paris at the age of twelve, on the eve of World War I, and the Paris underworld drew her in. At 13: "My mother has some artificial geraniums on the mantelpiece; I swipe a petal every day to rouge my cheeks and mouth." She worked in a war factory oiling soldiers' boots, in a munitions plant, in a bakery. An old sculptor asked her to pose...
...shifty little Comintern agent who recently lost his job as East German propaganda chief, and was presumed on the way out. He explained his long absence from the political arena without a smile: "I had to have my teeth repaired." Then he turned to the refugees. They were all "underworld characters, trash proletarians, black marketeers and scum . . ." but anyway, Eisler was going to save them from the horrors of Western imperialism...
During this period, Alfred began a long poem which would take twenty problems that people face in the world and voice them through twenty characters who travel the underworld. Then, representing the church, militant and triumphant, the theme would change to twenty saints who had solved the problems. Scaling down this ambitious project, Alfred published the work as Anunciation Rosary...
Even the Army. Meanwhile, the commission was told that Jersey City's Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every...
Throughout the crime commission's first sessions, Luchese remained a shadowy figure, little more than a name, as the commission flailed away at an old but far from dead horse: underworld influence in Tammany Hall, the nerve center of Manhattan's ailing Democratic organization. Some of its findings...