Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have our gangs, but so does Hitlerland! We have our robbers, thieves, murderers, etc., but so does Hitler, in fact, each country has its share. However, in addition to the unorganized underworld mobs of each country, Hitler has his own specially organized systematic government gang of plunderers...
...sudden the treasurer and inside 'shotters' gang got cold feet and started a secret investigation with no other objective than to cover their steps and run to cover, making me and underlings the goat and bring shame and humiliation on my poor loving wife. . . . There are no millions lost or hidden, much less narcotics or alcohol involved...
Soap Dodger Pendleton, leader of the Scatterfield gang, was the junkman's son, a blond, dirty, resourceful brat who spat tobacco juice in the ink wells. He devised ingenious persecutions for teachers' pets and snitches and for most grownups except old German Lew, who gave the gang beer, and old Charlie Heston, a drunken, ironic ex-astronomer who rhapsodized over ugly, muddy Scatterfield, which he called the Roman Empire...
...preacher who asked him "What might your name be, little man?" Soap Dodger answered, "It might be Jesus Christ, but it hain't." He never whimpered, not even when his old man laid him cold, and he was first of the gang to find out about sex at first hand. Such accomplishments and wisdom ranked high with his followers: Wickie Winters, scabby-faced, half-dressed, half-wit son of a washerwoman; Cockie Werner, whose only talent was catching frogs; Nutsie Doane, also ordinary, except for a crooked arm, the result of having a broken arm re-broken...
Among this gang Mark Cullen was handicapped by his size and social position. He was a skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...