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Word: ganged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robie and Bradley made no miskiekn, rare feat in any game, and covered half the field in taking the starch out of the Bruin forwards. Not until the closing minutes of the game did the visitors capitalize on Harvard's halfback weakness with a gang attack which alone could succeed in beating the Crimson's final defenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY TIES BRUINS IN SOCCER OPENER, 1-1 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Think Fast Mr. Moto" is the second feature and in it the sinister Peter Lorre jiu-jitzues his way to the exposure of an astute leader of a smuggling gang. A dramatic finish gives extra impetus to a film whose worth depends entirely on the individual's liking for Mr. Lorre. "Think Fast Mr. Moto" loses some of its punch since its theme is too strongly in contrast with that of its forerunner and becomes the mediocre backer-up on a mediocre bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...greatest ambition, though, is to have a 26-piece orchestra. In his present performances he uses 15 men, and in his recordings he uses only six. After he gets his bing gang together, Fats wants to have a chain of orchestras. "I wants to grab all dose cats that sings and put 'em in Fats Waller units," he said. Fats' favorite colored band is Fletcher Henderson's, while his pet white orchestra is Tommy Dorsey's. He prefers Ambrose to Ray Noble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fats' Waller, Lightfooted Leviathan of Swingin', Gives Unsolicited Jam Session | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jail Breakage | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach. Mr. Roach has spent a great many of his 45 years in Hollywood among the custard pies of its comedy lots. There he demonstrated his possession of the common touch of producing interminable series of Our Gang pictures, in which succeeding generations of fat, freckled, good, bad, pretty and colored children were featured. Mr. Roach made a fortune out of these films but this spring he put his name on a different kind of comedy, a full-length sophisticated picture. It was a good one called Topper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mussolini's Roach | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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