Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, at their second annual convention and dance the local chapter of the Missouri State Liquor Dealers' Association strictly banned all liquor. Explained Business Manager M. E. O'Connell: "We are trying to educate the public ... I mean, we want to show we are not a bunch of rumheads and boozers...
...legs blocked the thrust of the paw, and the beast took his place. More cats ran in-a batch of lions, a batch of tigers, a batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until all the animals were pedestaled-25 lions and lionesses, 15 tigers and tigresses. A tiger with ominously writhing tail left its post, slunk toward the small figure in white. Beatty put his head down almost to the sawdust, pretended to be staring the animal into submission. Actually...
...have lately had their work cut out for them. Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse, Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale...
Like John Dos Passes' trilogy, The Old Bunch is punctuated and underlined by scraps of current popular songs, but the background (Chicago from 1921 to 1934) is integrated with the story. Some of the 20-odd main characters wander to Manhattan, Paris, Palestine, Greece, Poland, but the principal focus is on Chicago and "the bunch'' as they grew up there. "The bunch," high-school age in 1921, were second-generation Russian Jews. Few of their immigrant fathers were well off; most of them were buttonhole makers, shoemakers, pawnbrokers, barbers, cigar-makers. Most of the mothers still spoke...
Some of the bunch were consciously ambitious, felt themselves capable of big things; all of them were determined to do better for themselves than their parents had. Their tastes soon began to differentiate them. Runt Plotkin, toughest of the crowd, embarrassed them by his actions with girls, which spoke louder than their lewd chatter. He drifted off to become a precocious hack-driver. First of the bunch to go further than the universally-allowed petting were Estelle and Sol, the chesty athlete. That went on till they got a scare, then they broke...