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Third Degree (1931) 39: A member of the Auto Squad arrested a city fireman [...] for having sold a stolen or bent car.at bent, adj.
Third Degree (1931) 39: A member of the Auto Squad arrested a city fireman [...] for having sold a stolen or bent car. Third Degree (1931) 164: The latter [...] came back fifteen minutes later with three hundred berries.at berry, n.1
Third Degree (1931) 31: Killers [...] can be hired to ‘knock off’ or ‘put a guy on the spot’ for from twenty-five to three hundred dollars, depending on the victim’s prominence. ‘Big Heads’ are worth the larger sums.at big head, n.1
Third Degree (1931) 63: No use, that bird isn’t human.at bird, n.1
Third Degree (1931) 42: The lieutenant rang for the doorman and said: ‘Bring up that blankety blank.’.at blankety-blank, phr.
Third Degree (1931) 224: A notorious safe, or ‘box’ man, was killed recently in the Criminal Courts Building during an attempted escape.at boxman, n.
Third Degree (1931) 67: There are several varieties of police buffs. Some of them are merely amiable eccentrics.at buff, n.2
Third Degree (1931) 177: Detectives and patrolmen usually hate each other, and only on rare occasions will the cop [...] offer any information or assistance to the ‘bull’ or ‘dick’.at bull, n.5
Third Degree (1931) 239: Button up yer lip, or I’ll button it fer yer.at button one’s lip, v.
Third Degree (1931) 129: The stolen get-away Cadillac car had plates calling for a Ford automobile.at getaway car, n.
Third Degree (1931) 172: Getting some husky men with him, he picked up an assortment of axes, bars and sledge-hammers. With much gusto, he cleaned out about a dozen disorderly houses.at clean out, v.
Third Degree (1931) 227: Many of the newer generation of ‘coked’ or ‘hopped up’ gunmen will shoot and kill a merchant because they don’t like the look of his face.at coked (up), adj.
Third Degree (1931) 174: He would go to the offended political boss and humbly apologize for being such a ‘crab’.at crab, n.1
Third Degree (1931) 175: A former district leader [...] called a police captain every name on the most obscene roster of rare cuss words.at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
Third Degree (1931) 90: Some years ago a Hip Sing was sent to paste, on a neutral sign board, a defi to the On Leongs.at defi, n.
Third Degree (1931) 109: Two billiard cues bounced on his derby, shoulders and body.at derby, n.
Third Degree (1931) 179: At the North River he found a dock rat asleep on the string piece.at dock rat (n.) under dock, n.2
Third Degree (1931) 161: The local or borough inspector will send out a ‘shoo-fly’ officer in plain clothes to get him.at shoo-fly, n.
Third Degree (1931) 162: The cop himself is subjected to petty grafting.at graft, v.3
Third Degree (1931) 173: The grapevine wireless usually informed the inspector how the political boss stood with Tammany Hall or the powers that be. [Ibid.] 222: When he makes his appearance the news is flashed everywhere by the prison ‘wireless’.at grapevine wireless (n.) under grapevine, n.1
Third Degree (1931) 72: Heslin was the contemptible, growler-rushing type of petty thief who would maim or kill a person for refusing him the price of a drink.at rush the growler (v.) under growler, n.3
Third Degree (1931) 156: The safest racket in the world is to rob a married man or woman who is playing hookey.at play hooky, v.
Third Degree (1931) 223: For a few bucks, the keeper or attendant would immediately find something to do in another section, while a little hop or dope was slipped to an anxious prisoner.at hop, n.3
Third Degree (1931) 227: Many of the newer generation of ‘coked’ or ‘hopped up’ gunmen will shoot and kill a merchant because they don’t like the look of his face.at hopped (up), adj.
Third Degree (1931) 31: The gang chieftains are not chancing ‘a long ride to the Big House or a trip to the House with the Green Shutters’.at house with green shutters (n.) under house, n.1
Third Degree (1931) 108: He had been persuaded by the detectives that he would be set free if he ‘turned up the gang.’.at turn in, v.2
Third Degree (1931) 156: This game was pulled some time ago on one of the best-known and supposedly ‘wisest’ jockeys in the country.at jockey, n.2
Third Degree (1931) 227: The present-day amateur hold-up man or youth, may do fifty ‘jump’ jobs without realizing a thousand dollars.at jump, n.
Third Degree (1931) 68: After the arrest the gang figured there must be a leak from the outside.at leak, n.
Third Degree (1931) 48: If you don’t tell me where Jim the Lug is, I’ll kick your brains all over the room.at lug, n.2
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