Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in the money, the entire Picasso gang" often came home very late, drunk as bedbugs, singing, declaiming poetry and shouting such slogans as "A bas Laforgue...
...birthday (Jan. 30) he cut a cake with 21 candles at the White House for a big party of family & friends including, as usual, members of the Cuff-Links Gang-eight men whose friendship dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's days as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and to whom he gave cufflinks in remembrance of their help in his unsuccessful campaign for Vice President...
...dead eddy of time after the War, a young Dutch ex-divinity student and soldier named Pieter Antonie Laurusse van Paassen found himself in Canada bouncing from job to job. He wrapped department store parcels, peddled magazines, delivered milk, fired locomotives, collected streetcar fares, worked on a blasting gang in gold mines of the Big Dome. Every time he tried a new job, he quickly decided he had missed his calling. Finally, by shutting his eyes and putting his finger down on a list of vocations ranging from accountant to sausage maker, he picked what proved a relatively permanent...
John Gratin McCarthy, the "honest Irishman," went to work for a Board of Trade firm as messenger boy in 1903. He was 13 at the time and used to sneak out the back door of his home so the gang would not see him in his first pair of long pants. Before long he struck up a friendship with his boss's son, Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...