Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every comrade knows, Stakhanov was an obscure coal miner who persuaded three other miners to join with him in working as a gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have...
Almost as harmless and twice as ingratiating as his gang of burglars is Dr. Clitterhouse, gracefully impersonated by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. The amazing doctor has undertaken a part-time life of crime not for gain but to examine at first hand the pathology of crime. How his clinical studies lead him into more trouble than he had bargained for makes a felicitous tale as amusing as the nursery underworld it describes...
...trouble he is always getting into by his scraps with mean, 'fraid-cat Rodney Bitts (Jackie Morrow), the son of his dad's boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow G-man Verman (Phillip Hurlic, the junior G-men throw their efforts on the side of the law. As dramaturgy, the device of having Bank-robber Hanson (Craig Reynolds; and associates take...
...paint the life around them, instead of duchesses in pearls, goddesses in Greek draperies, or New England valleys in a pink mist was enough to deny them admission to most galleries and for the critics of the day to label them the "Ash-can School," the ''Black Gang" and "Apostles of Ugliness...
...Connecticut because it was unprofitable.* In Providence, R. I., the New Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator of Joe's Auto Salvage Co. and a gang of men had pilfered 250 tons of New Haven rails worth $3,800 from an abandoned stretch of the Harrisville-Woonsocket R. R. in northern Rhode Island last summer...