Word: gang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the very outset this has been nothing but a case of political persecution in retaliation for my investigation of Harry Daugherty and the 'Ohio gang' in the Department of Justice. The attempt of the Daugherty crowd to 'get' me started when I began the investigation that, by the weight of public opinion, drove Daugherty out of public life...
Unfortunately the story lost itself with the pearl king among a gang of pickpockets and confidence men, posing as a domestic group. Leatrice Joy, known in Hollywood as the woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination...
Four Harvard men received honorable mention. "The Three Jests" by C. C. Abbott '28, "The Bypaths," by Howard Finney, "How Christmas Cheer Came to the Chain Gang," by J. N. Leonard '25, and "Monotone" by G. P. Ludlam '25, were named as "stories of distinction...
...explaining what he meant by the standard of the job as being more important than the amount of money earned, Mr. Williams described his first job as a laborer. He was shovelling bricks, and had been one of the shovelling, gang for three weeks when the boss asked him if he would like to join the mill-rake gang...
...Blind Pigger." "When he handed it to the narrow-minded gang I bet you a fin he meant the damn Prohibitionists. I wonder if he takes a drink once in a while...