Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers were whooping it up, but the fact is that Scotland Yard has for more than a year been concerned by a London gang war that centers around a shakedown racket involving race-track bookies...
...rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns, hand grenades, British service revolvers and German Lugers, to maintain his own rule. So long as the rivalry was literary, the Yard did not seem to mind. But then Billy Hill, bored with the artistic life, began to frequent his old haunts with the possible notion of taking over the rackets from Spot. One day last August, Spot, dressed in his elegant best, and a tearaway identified as "Italian Albert" Dimes began...
...just leaving the club, and−once again−Jack Spot, who, according to Tommy, jumped out at him from a darkened doorway and worked him over. At week's end, fingered by Falco, Jack Spot was in jail on charges of "causing grievous bodily harm," and Scotland Yard breathed slightly easier. "If we can just get Spot sent up for a couple of years," said one official. If there must be gang wars at all, in the British view, monopolies are ever so much better...
...message service itself is a pretty amazing thing, proving as it apparently does that there was some sense in the pony express idea after all. Since most students living in Yard dormitories for the summer do not have private telephones, the Gray Hall office will take any incoming telephone message between the hours of 1 and 11 p.m. every day. It then makes two copies of the message, keeping one at hand and sending the other via immediate messenger to the dormitory room of the person being called. If you miss the note in your room, you can always pick...
Because of the large enrollment, all available living facilities in the Yard dormitories and the graduate center are already taken. However, the office in Grays Hall 1-2 has a listing of rooms outside the University, which are in relatively abundant supply...