Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connected in the minds of all schoolboys and Europeans, yet from Chicago comes a distinctly cheery beam to lighten the gloomy pall of crime that hangs over America, the land of the free. The Windy City's crime commission has confidently denied the possibility of a revival of gang wars, declaring that "there is nothing left to fight about." If this statement is true, and not merely an empty vaunting of civic pride, then Chicago has undeniably justified the hopes of the prophets who freed the country from prohibition shackles...
...appears to Dr. Luke that his life work in the community is over. He is sadly boarding a boat to leave Moosetown for the last time when his most reliable patient, whose first six children Dr. Luke has brought into the world, runs up to the gang plank and requests his services...
...spent less than $15,000 on it. And to keep him from becoming a snob she bought him a little colored playmate, had him washed, perfumed, dressed in Paris clothes. That experiment, however, was not a success. When the McLeans became great friends with President Harding and the Ohio Gang, Evalyn had high hopes of Ned's ultimate reformation, but he was inevitably headed for a sanitarium...
...invective, and the Secretary of the Interior, who possesses the most sulphurous vocabulary in the New Deal, long ago singled out each other for particular attention. Month ago Secretary Ickes curled his lip and sneered: ''Really, I don't pay much attention to anything his Chain-Gang Excellency says." Governor Talmadge drawled back: "Aw! He's just one of them boon- dogglers...
...dazzling flash the whole panorama shifts, and these characters assume their new roles in the gang. Immediately preparations build up for the denouement, an outcome that can be predicted in general import, but that leaves an exhilarating suspense as to details. A final charming touch occurs when the pretty bait, bared in her shame and led off by the police, swears that she never liked any guy as much as Calvin Miller...