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One-Way Ride 6: Vincenzo Cosmano [...] tried the effect of a skull-and-crossbones missive on Colosimo and was riddled with buckshot.at skull and crossbones, n.
One-Way Ride 6: Vincenzo Cosmano [...] tried the effect of a skull-and-crossbones missive on Colosimo and was riddled with buckshot. One-Way Ride 35: Piggy Joyce, once a pork-and-beans grifter, thought nothing of losing or winning $50,000 a night.at pork-and-beans, adj.
One-Way Ride 148: Tropea was a bad egg.at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
One-Way Ride 64: Gangland whispered that Jew Ben at last had heard ‘the bad news.’ While Newark was undressing for bed [...] an assassin killed him with a shot fired through a closed window.at bad news, n.
One-Way Ride 284: He’d have been a bear-cat as a Central Bureau dick.at bear cat (n.) under bear, n.
One-Way Ride 19: Big Jim never bilked a pal.at bilk, v.
One-Way Ride 86: He remained hard-boiled even in a hard-boiled shirt.at hard-boiled shirt (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
One-Way Ride 95: Morgan Collins, his chief of police, launched an honest drive against the bootleg ring.at bootleg, adj.
One-Way Ride 37: Torrio and Capone invaded Cicero in October, 1923, and annexed it like a conquered province to their bootleg kingdom.at bootleg, adj.
One-Way Ride 43: Rocco Fannelli, and Danny Vallo, directors of beer and booze running.at booze, n.
One-Way Ride 69: That young bravo [...] had erred gravely in killing him.at bravo, n.
One-Way Ride 75: Paddy the Bear [...] beat him black and blue and wound up by lifting the Runt out into the street on the toe of a heavy brogan.at brogan, n.
One-Way Ride 195: He was a bull-head and thought he was smarter than he was. That’s the reason he’s dead.at bull-head, n.1
One-Way Ride 161: His success, they sneered, was an accident. He was a busher.at busher, n.
One-Way Ride 78: An old chaw, puffing his dudeen by a barroom stove [...] might spin a yarn about him.at chaw, n.
One-Way Ride 138: The look of a stolid, rough-hewn clodhopper who might have lived peacefully all his life in a hut on the slopes of Stromboli.at clodhopper, n.
One-Way Ride 93: They set hundreds of their countrymen to work cooking alcohol in the tenements of the West Side Italian quarter. [Ibid.] 130: Captain John Stege, in a police raid in the neighborhood of Genna headquarters [...] broke up thirty alcohol cookeries with a capacity of 20,000 gallons a week.at cook, v.1
One-Way Ride 3: Gentleman Jim Corbett telling John McCormack how he put old John L. down for the count.at down for the count under count, n.3
One-Way Ride 21: And when murder became necessary Torrio pressed a buzzer, issued an order to his gunmen as to so many counter-jumping clerks, and left the details to them.at counter-jumper, n.
One-Way Ride 35: Cracksmen assembled to blow a safe had the appearance of dandies gathered for wafers and tea at some function of splash society.at cracksman, n.1
One-Way Ride 311: According to the public [...] If I happen to fall for a doll, and she has a sweetie, I shoot the sweetie and cop the frail.at doll, n.1
One-Way Ride 3: A group of young blades from the Gold Coast, bleary eyed and noisy, turning down highballs.at turn down, v.1
One-Way Ride 81: He was a hot-tempered fellow [...] mixing in many knock-down and drag-out rows.at drag-out, n.
One-Way Ride 160: He’ll make a fizzle of the job, of course.at fizzle, n.2
One-Way Ride 77: This man of the underworld [...] lived like a prince, surrounded by flunkies.at flunky, n.2
One-Way Ride 184: You are just a four-flush. You shoot off your mouth too much.at four-flusher, n.
One-Way Ride 74: Here, with a dirty apron tied about his waist, Paddy the Bear held his court, sold his beer and tanglefoot.at tangle-foot, n.
One-Way Ride 81: He was known to the patrons as Gimpy O’Bannion; he limped slightly.at gimpy, n.
One-Way Ride 310: When the police are too dumb to solve a crime, I’m always somewhere in the background as the brains of the job. I’m the official goat of the Chicago police department.at goat, n.2
One-Way Ride 57: I’ve got the goods on you. You and John Novotney and Max Kasper and George Stober robbed that bank out in LaGrange.at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
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