Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
Thus Navy task missions out of Honolulu have become hell-for-leather, slam-bang affairs planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...
...Crosby item has on one side a rather effectively weird, or maybe it's weirdly effective, piece by the arranger for the band, Bob Haggart, who calls it "Chain Gang." Tomtoms thump throughout, and there is some raucous muted trumpeting by Yank Lawson, who has heard Cootie Williams play. The reverse is an arrangement for the orchestra of the beautiful piano improvisation by Jess Stacy called "Ec-Stacy," which was recorded nearly three years ago. This remake stars Stacy again, but although it is an attractive, easily swinging performance, it has lost most of the expressiveness of the original, largely...
While the patients sang Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here, State Education Inspector Albert A. Buchholz served the doctor with a summons to appear before the medical grievance committee of the State Department of Education. The charges: 1) operating a dispensary and clinic without a permit; 2) "falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully and unlawfully" allowing unlicensed persons to practice medicine in the clinic; 3) violating State law by advertising unethically in magazines...
...firing and one of the characters said: "Here they come!" Just at that minute a flight of dive-bombers opened up on an airfield and our AAs opened up on them. The noise of that little brush completely drowned the sound effects on the radio. There was a gang around listening to the program and we were all very much amused at the coincidence. If you can get around to it, please drop a note to KGEI and tell them how grateful all of us out here are for their programs...