Word: whined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Stege had begun an inconvenient practice of giving "house parties" at headquarters for all known gangsters picked up on sight. Capone was ready to face these changes when he returned to Chicago. He had left short, stocky, moon-faced Jake Guzick, who hides shrewd ability under a spunkless whine, in charge of the Capone gang. Guzick would make his "business report." Capone would do whatever reorganizing was necessary. The peace pact negotiated at Atlantic City was still in force. Such gang killings as had occurred were sporadic personal affairs, no part of the wholesale slaughter committed by organized under...
...cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder, and a turnkey. A lull comes at nightfall while a searchlight sweeps the grated windows; there are three rebels left...