Word: gang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shadows of the Cambridge under-world are reported to have cast their sinister menace over the traffic box in Harvard Square night before last. The unseen peril came in the from of a threatening missive from "Feagan's gang" delivered by a "tool" in the guise of a Cambridge schoolgirl. One of the city's most beloved officers, the friend of children and Harvard Square merchants, was informed point-blank that he was going to be "bumped off" last night, probably in cold blood. The unfriendly import of the note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only...
...permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations; and why she withdrew from the League when this legitimate aspiration was denied her (TIME, June 21, 1926). Shrewdly the statesmen of Brazil claim that the League of Nations will continue to be dominated by a selfish little gang of European states, so long as no American nation and no Asiatic nation except Japan is permanently seated on the Council...
...gang of railroad workers captured the "phantom" in Omaha's outskirts, walking the ties. He was a 45-year-old maniac named Frank Carter. He boasted about his marksmanship, displayed his .22 calibre automatic with silencer attachment. He had been paroled from the State prison after conviction for killing a neighbor's cows. He still wanted to "Kill, Kill, Kill," he said. Nebraska hanged...
...Gang War.* No gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with...
...William Boyd) wins the gang-leader's girl (Jacqueline Logan), this time in a disconnected picture released perhaps too late, perhaps still soon enough to share the harvest reaped for producers by every bomb, dick, and scarey...