Word: underworlds
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...little action for anyone, a chief reason the opera is not performed more often. Dying King Admetus is condemned by Apollo to the Styx unless someone can be found to die in his place. None of the citizenry volunteers, so wife Alcestis sacrifices herself. Admetus follows her to the underworld, and Apollo is so impressed by their devotion that he reprieves them both...
...time of his arrest, a Law School classmate called Feinberg "The sort of guy who likes to talk big about his illegal deals and boasts of his underworld friends. I considered him just a talker." Friends said that Feinberg had talked knowingly of the series of basketball scandals, and hinted he knew more than the police...
...deep, clear green basins, she would notice, in the bare green twilight, under the lemon leaves, that all her body was rosy, rosy and turning to gold ... And she would rub a little olive oil in her skin, and wander a moment in the dark underworld of the lemons ... laughing to herself. There was just a chance some peasant might see her. But if he did he would be more afraid of her than she of him (page...
...Post also took a critical look at Winchell's relations with "the baddies" in the underworld. Commented the Post: " 'The baddies' have staked their newsboy pal to some pretty good beats," such as the surrender of Killer Lepke to Winchell on Aug. 24, 1939, and the murder of Mad Dog Coll. During the Kefauver hearings, Winchell ran a column of anecdotes in which he "remembered all sorts of things about Frank Costello-all nice," and followed it up later with an exclusive interview picturing him "as an authority on how to stamp out crime...
...drafted by Publishing Tycoon Raymond Massey to reform his drunken nephew (Gig Young), now the husband of Cagney's old girl friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...