Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspapers, whose publicity had made a "big shot" out of a sly little hoodlum, could find little that was kind or colorful to write into Diamond's obituary and had to content themselves with smart references to him as the underworld's "clay pigeon." and "ammunition dump." Six months ago the New Yorker counted up his eleven wounds, christened him "Big Shot-at," predicted his early demise...
...because they have done evil, but because they represent values that catch the popular enthusiasm. Wealth has unquestionably been the reward of many such men; and wealth, whether in a Rockefeller, a Ford, or a Capone has gained the respect of the American public. The king pins of the underworld represent other achievements; and when their success is the result of "high-power organization," with a chief in Florida able to execute his will in Chicago, he wins the unthinking approval of the American public as does the broker who controls the market from his country estate, or the president...
...First time was in 1929 when Capone was tried and convicted in Philadelphia for carrying a pistol. He spent ten months in jail, his only prison term to date. But underworld legend says he went to jail that time on purpose, to avoid being assassinated in Chicago...
...many, General Smuts's scientific philosophy is comfortingly anthropocentric. The universe of 20th Century physics he accepts completely. It is for him a stupendous organization of atoms, electrons, protons, radiations and quanta. From this "uncertain nebulous underworld, there seems to crystallize out, or literally to materialize, the macroscopic world. . . . We rise to new levels as later on we pass from the physical to the biological level, and again from the latter to the conscious mind. But-and this is the significant fact-all these levels are genetically related and form an evolutionary series; and underlying the differences...
...effort to vary, however slightly, the frayed formula for underworld pictures, Warner Brothers stumbled into the environment of illegal gambling, a field so fertile it is hard to see how it had hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last...