Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's newspapers yammered indignantly, of course, at the "insulting and revolting" proposal, this "outrageous evidence of arrogant municipal gang rule." But in private their hard-boiled editors made remarks like the one quoted at the beginning of this report...
Regretting that the Mayor's attack "was based on a malicious and unjustifiable attack on my late husband," Nominee McCormick nevertheless professed to be "pleased" with it. She felt it would prove for all time that she had no political connection with the "City Hall gang" in Chicago...
...Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges Thill of the Paris Opera; Hans Clemens of Berlin. Baritones Claudio Frigerio, native of Paterson, N. J., trained abroad. Basso: Ivar Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
...whole thing is an amusing spectacle of undergraduate journalism at its best. We have no doubt that the Crimson gang is enjoying itself, that it is tickled to death with the results of its outburst, and that it is still sure that it was right in the first place. And the attendant publicity is an important factor as well...
They were a gallant crew, that old gang of childhood. Nine-year old fancy toyed willingly with the pathos of Old Mother Hubbard and the little dog gazing ever so wistfully at a blank and bare chipboard. Swarms of children, with the readers among them, often gamboled gleefully over a battered shoe very much down at the heel, while the Old Woman Who Lived There watched their prancings in despair. And Mother Goose, fittingly astride a whiskery broomstick reigned proudly over her host of youthful subjects...