Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time, the youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...
...flying squadron of them turned up at Brooklyn's High School for Homemaking, there found some of the girls mad because the school's evening socials had been dropped. Out on strike went a gang of girls, with the war cry: "It's an old maid's institution...
...since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...
Editor Fernandes had incurred the enmity of Interventor (appointed governor) of Pernambuco Etelvino Lins when he printed the full story of the murder of Democrito de Souza (TIME, March 19), a student leader. In his own garden, Fernandes was knifed one night by a gang of capangas (paid cutthroats...
Last week hardboiled, honest Lewis J. Valentine at 63 was entitled to his reward. He stepped down from the police force and announced that, starting Sept. 15, he would become "Chief Investigator-Commentator" for radio's Gang Busters...