Word: racket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Campbell exposed the prostitution racket and its City Hall connections, racketeers lured him from a barroom and gave him a terrific beating. With his ribs broken and his lungs punctured, Campbell went to Tucson to recuperate...
...singularly appropriate because the proprietress, Madame Rose (Francoise Rosay), herself dabbles in stolen baubles. The Hotel Bijon isn't exactly the Waldorf of Paris--as a matter of fact, its dusty brick walls conceal quite a bit of shady activity. Daytime scenes are taken up with the stolen goods racket. I suspect the Boston censors have flourished their knives at the nighttime scenes, but not so much that the results unduly tax the imagination...
...Some sharp-eyed observation of the rotten underside of the fight racket; with Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter (TIME, April...
...they streamed toward the green lawns of the capital's Parque Nacional. The crowd-some 180,000 strong-was the biggest Bogotá (pop. 400,000) had ever seen. At 1:05 p.m., the hour of their martyr's death, screaming horns and sirens made a louder racket than any New Year's celebration the city had ever heard. There was no violence...
...copy of the Morning Telegraph and then they buy a 50 cent "hot tip" card. After they pore over these for half an hour, they stick a pin into their programs and rush down to the window to slap two bucks on a nag that's in the race racket because it's too old to pull a milk wagon...