Word: gang
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...
...usual large and proficient band will represent the CRIMSON, with S. S. Hall as premier pill-heaver. The Bow Street Gang, on the other hand, is a surprisingly weak-kneed lot, and little is expected of them. "Special Delivery" Wentworth will issue free passes and round-trip tickets from the twirler's mound, "Hank Gowdy" Smith completing the battery...
...falls in love with a woman in the congregation. His friend, Archer, finding out that the woman has a fortune, approves, and very soon falls in love with her sister. By much amusing stratagy the two men meet the ladies and are later able to save them from a gang of thieves. The chief merits of the comedy are the quality of the humor and the cleverness and individuality of the characterization...
...injustices can be committed under cover of its magic name. But leaving generalities aside, let's look the situation squarely in the face and find a few specific instances. Take the question of the night shirt parades. We have no objection to the parade. But when a reckless gang of paraders make an exuberance of College Spirit their excuse for robbing, rioting and pillaging they make fools of themselves and cast suspicion on their fellow students under the guise of institutional loyalty : when they paint the town red in a misdirected attempt to display their college pride, then...
...because we know all about it, but it don't look right to the outside world that is scrutinizing us close. He never beat us once, but from what he printed you'd think we never got a game, and that the Lampoon had about the classiest gang of pill-casters that ever swung a bat. He has made his last joke, darn him. . . . R.I.P...