Word: gange
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. From Mrs. Vanderbilt's home Milan took an emerald worth $40,000, several other jewels of lesser value, one imitation pearl necklace, thirteen miniatures, three raw eggs. Milan insulted the Paris gendarmes who captured him, boasted that he was leader of a gang of Serbian thieves...
...Common Sin, variously known as Bobo's Bargain, Bad Debts and Paid Off, came out of the shop, stumbled through a quadrangle of illicit love, polished off a polite off-stage murder, ended sweetly. Its author, Willard Mack, also wrote the current and noisy Gang...
While the city sleeps, the cops play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away...
...advantage) wi' that Ayrshire yokel, Rabbie Burns. Rabble's fairly weel ken't the day in the literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared in prent. The Faem o' the author o' "the gaping Ayrshire yokels" should gang thunnerin' doon the ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel...
...night. For no good reason, Trotter leaves his wife, drifts into the bootlegging business. In his relations with gangsters and with other women, his mind takes jumps to his wife?her mannerisms, her legs. Finally, as he decides to go back to her. he is shot in a gang feud...