numbers racket
Example Sentences
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Simkins first came to the attention of police in the 1940s, when he ran a numbers racket out of the Georgia Avenue NW home of his girlfriend, Sarah “Dimples” Mears Hall.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2021
Shorto awkwardly dances around his grandfather’s story, giving us some fascinating history on the numbers racket, the Johnstown flood, Prohibition, his Sicilian roots and the songs of Frank Sinatra.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2021
The town in question was Pittsburgh, and the 20th-century renaissance there sprawled from music to journalism to sports to the numbers racket.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018
Some of us can remember way back to 2009, when the state decided to get into the numbers racket.
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2017
“I got full charge of the numbers racket in this hospital,” he said.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
