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Night Stick 49: The trigger-happy ‘Legs’ [Diamond] didn’t have enough imagination or ingenuity to get in on the really ‘big money’.at big, adj.
Night Stick 49: The trigger-happy ‘Legs’ [Diamond] didn’t have enough imagination or ingenuity to get in on the really ‘big money’. Night Stick 43: It was after an apprenticeship with a Bronx gang in automobile ‘borrowing’ and petty larceny that Crowley developed his boldness.at borrow, v.
Night Stick 240: Policemen and policewomen can well hold their heads high. They wear their courage with modesty. They live and they die with their boots on.at die in one’s boots (v.) under die, v.
Night Stick 144: After Maione was arrested, orders were issued to ‘erase’ Catalano.at erase, v.
Night Stick 208: Rose, an ex-convict, frequented restaurants and tipped off his confederates of the appearance of wealthy women. Not only that, Rose followed these bejeweled women home, learning their addresses. We call such a man the ‘finger man’.at finger man, n.
Night Stick 194: Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was the leader of the city’s $12,000,000 vice ring. Under Mr. Dewey’s relentless interrogation, he folded completely.at fold, v.
Night Stick 51: Even [Dutch] Schultz’s lobbygows and errand boys managed to dress better than the boss.at lobby-gow, n.
Night Stick 240: Peter Colavecchio was holed up with ‘graduates’ of various penal institutions. There was Louis Scotti, Dave Bloom, and Tony Cutro, all of them two-time losers.at graduate, n.
Night Stick 129: Theories [of his murder] varied: some said that Augie was killed because his gangster confreres feared he was ‘double-crossing’ them and giving the East Side the ‘high hat’.at high hat, n.
Night Stick 41: What a scabby lot these violators were. They had killed freely, lived high, had had pockets full of loose cash; but when they reached the end of the line they were penniless.at live high (v.) under high, adj.1
Night Stick 240: Peter Colavecchio was holed up with ‘graduates’ of various penal institutions. There was Louis Scotti, Dave Bloom, and Tony Cutro, all of them two-time losers.at two-time loser, n.
Night Stick 117: George McManus [...] ran his gambling game in City Clerk Michael J. Cruise’s political club; that Johnny Baker’s ‘play’ was steered to the club of Harry C. Perry, Chief Clerk of the City Court.at play, n.
Night Stick 41: What a scabby lot these violators were. They had killed freely, lived high, had had pockets full of loose cash; but when they reached the end of the line they were penniless.at scabby, adj.1
Night Stick 129: We never got the killer. The killers seldom do their ‘settling’ in the presence of witnesses.at settle, v.
Night Stick 111: Acting Captain Bernard F. McQuade [...] found himself a lieutenant—‘somewhere in Siberia’ .at Siberia, n.
Night Stick 42: We never did find out who killed him. Higgins held fast to his warped underworld code. He wouldn’t talk.at talk, v.
Night Stick 221: Time and again [detectives] instruct messenger boys to keep out of dark hallways where they might be conveniently tapped on the head.at tap, v.2
Night Stick 208: It was Lieutenant Mason who touched luck and cleansed the community of a gang of cut-throat thieves.at touch lucky (v.) under touch, v.1
Night Stick 222: They nabbed the late, notorious Nicky Arnstein and his gang. Securities to the value of $1,500,000 had been stolen by the Arnstein troupe.at troupe, n.
Night Stick 106: The gamblers’ watchouts knew every Confidential Squad member, and could spot a detective a block away.at watchout (n.) under watch, v.
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