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What people often don't often realise that in the 20's 30's racket was a slang term for any job / profession it had yet to take on its illegal connotations
by lostboys67 10y ago
What people often don't often realise that in the 20's 30's racket was a slang term for any job / profession it had yet to take on its illegal connotations
- calibas 10y agoNot sure where you got this idea, but reading Butler's speech should make it clear the kind of connotations the word racket had in the 30's. "During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
- lostboys67 10y agoIf you read histories quoting original sources its also used in literature at the time Pg Woodhouse.