Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lincoln's boys and girls had fun going to dances, hearing Negro choirs, fighting a forest fire, chatting with a Georgia chain gang that dug a path for their busses through a landslide. Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor...
...petition is peculiarly well illustrated by the story of the petition to abolish final examinations which was passed around among the seniors at Syracuse a short while ago. Slipped into the middle was a clause which made all signers liable to a five year term on a Georgia labor gang. One hundred and fifteen signed the petition; only three refused...
There's some sort of a quotation that says the old must yield place to the new. Hemenway Gymnasium is living up to it with a vigor surprising for such an old building. But Hemenway's present liveliness is not her own; it comes from a gang of beauty-lovers professionally known as the Central Building Wrecking Company...
...South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity to bait Illinois'. Ham Lewis into a voluble debate on Chicago jurisprudence. North Carolina's Robert Reynolds helped out by discussing Europe, the Orient, the British Isles, South America, Africa, the Malay States...
...often been a political football. The price of gas was reduced from $3.50 to $2.70 per i ,000 cu. ft. and its quality reduced to a point where it corroded stoves, when, in 1880 a reform movement ousted a city administration that was known as "the gas house gang." In 1897, however, when gas was down to $1, an era of peace set in with the granting of a 30-year lease on the gasworks to United Gas Improvement Co., first U. S. public utility holding company. In 1926 the city council was sufficiently satisfied with the arrangement to renew...