Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accused Douglas of being elected by the Capone gang...
...Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British." Two bricks came crashing through the store window. Scooping up their children, the 'wives ducked behind the store counter, and the manager barricaded the doors...
Everyman's Entertainment. Burly, 33-year-old Hal Roach Jr., who got his start as an assistant director of Our Gang comedies ("I unbuttoned and buttoned their pants between scenes"), has been in command of the studio since he took over the production reins from his father in 1948. He accounts for his new success with the explanation that televiewers have even lower I.Q.s than moviegoers: "On TV, a character must be immediately self-explanatory-that's why a guy like William Bendix will be great. I'm sure The Birth of a Baby, which made...
...remember the author's widely read "Man With the Golden Arm." It depicted carefully and correctly the Chicago of bums, rummies, winoes, the world of the Near North Side. Algren has this Chicago heavily on his mind in his latest work: the city of Hinky Dink Kenna, the Capone gang, and the Black Sox. His poetic description of the town and his reactions to it hangs largely about the wrong side of Michigan Boulevard...
Even now, in what sounds like an echo from an old Greenwich Village bull session, he believes that "the whole aim of the gang that runs Russia, U.S.A., Britain and France is to destroy the contemplative life altogether." Short on formal education (he went to medical school straight from high school), he has tried to make a virtue of the literary amateurism that still keeps cropping up in the careless writing of Autobiography...