Word: gang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POET ASSASSINATED-Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated from the French by Matthew Josephson)- Broom ($5.00). Wilhelm de Kostrovitsky (Guillaume Apollinaire), was a Frenchman famous for his eccentricities. He was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter, leading about in his trail a gang of writers and freaks, artists and idiots. Idol of the professional modernists in literature, he was the friend of such distinguished artists as Matisse and Picasso. The Poet Assassinated is a work containing practically all of its author's unlimited peculiarities. It is remotely autobiographical, the history of a poet, whose birth is described with a somewhat appalling...
...school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years old, he is the brains of the Ludlow Street Gang...
...Days of gang-fights-war with the Essex Street Guerillas, with the Micks (Irish gang)-study, petty thievery, incipient graft, the Synagogue. The gang was born "with a bit of the apple from the tree of knowledge in our mouths. Of sex mysteries there were none for me . . . soon it was a general thing for the gang to visit Allen Street"- home of prostitution...
Educated at the City College, Meyer is to be a lawyer. He shuns the Ludlow Street Gang, which has grown and taken on a definite character. "A nest of thieves." But its members were such stuff as clients are made of and he maintains friendly relations, keeps in touch with their secrets, though seldom seen by them. Boolkie, gang leader, "said it will be a great thing for the gang to have its own mouthpiece...
Rivalry develops among members of the gang for Esther Brinn, 16, respected by all. Meyer becomes jealous. The passion persists even after she joins settlement work and until she marries Barney Finn, Irish reformer-a scandal to all the Jews...