Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukrainians were "large enough to be mistaken for detectives"; that, of course, explained it. Other aspects of the shooting might seem perfectly natural to New Yorkers, but inexplicable to Europeans, who can never quite abandon their ingrained belief that the U.S. scene consists largely of Indian massacres and gang battles. Could the law-respecting British, for instance, understand why two women customers who had seen the shooting failed to come forward until the police laboriously sought them...
...three men represented the three Jewish resistance groups in Palestine: 1) Haganah (Defense), largest and most nearly moderate; 2) Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), and 3) the Stern Gang, both outlawed advocates of terror. For hours they argued vehemently in the cigaret smoke haze. But in the end they found no shalom...
Every shady move in this fast crook movie has been tested and approved, time & again, at the boxoffice. But the familiar yarn, retold with energy, skill and loving corroborative detail, is still serviceable. John Garfield, head con man in as seedy a gang of characters as ever plotted a swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright...
...hurling herself on her husband in a shower of caresses which lasted until the passion for work resumed its sway." In 1896, wrote Shaw (whom serious Beatrice Webb regarded as "a sprite"-a sort of undine with only a slender connection with the world of mortals): "The Fabian old gang can only afford a country house for our holiday because one of us [Sidney Webb] has a wife with a thousand a year. This time we have been joined by an Irish millionairess-a great catch for somebody*-whom we have incorporated into our Fabian family with great success...
...Arab side is given with understanding and perfunctoriness. Various shades of British opinion in Palestine are flashed, from outright anti-Semitism to militant pro-Zionism. And the Jews range from turn-the-other-cheek scholars to Stern Gang bomb heavers. In the end, Joseph, the hero, is converted to terrorism, but the conversion is not convincing...