Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner gang, fighting an intangible rebellion, is bound together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided, can get results was shown last week: the President abandoned his plan, opposed by Garner, Harrison & Co., to increase the limit of the public debt...
Cruel, unwarranted and frequently untrue have been the jokes leveled at WPA. An effort is afoot to put an end to them on the stage. But WPA itself has not ceased making them. Last week it was discovered that a WPA slum clearance gang, sent to tear down a house at 158 Belmont Ave., Brooklyn, found the houses in the block unnumbered, razed No. 156 by mistake...
...their possession a swing arrangement of Rubenstein's "Melody in F." Police say that the men failed in an attempt to destroy the evidence, and it will be used against them when they appear before the court next Tuesday. It is believed that the men are members of the gang headed by the notorious czar of bootleg swing, Benny (Hot-Fingers) Goodman...
...rival editor called him a "powdered ape" who knocked down a young girl and stole her hair for his wig. Another libelously linked him with the "Mohawks," a gang of London roughnecks who rolled stray females in barrels and cut off the noses of wandering drunks. Actually he seems to have been an obscure, spry, spare little man with a "brown complexion and dark brown-coloured hair ... a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes and a large mole near his mouth...
...what was perhaps the clumsiest piece of buck-passing ever perpetrated, Police Commissioner Timilty last Friday traced Boston's juvenile delinquency back to the "Dean End Kids." Mr. Timilty's statement, which was made following the daring capture of five 13-year-old members of the Green Hornet Gang, deplored "the harm these pictures are doing to young minds," and ended on a note of despair: "There is nothing the police can do about them...