Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve is a puzzle to her schoolmates, a trial to her teachers, a constant irritant who sends her unsympathetic father's blood pressure zooming. She lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes...
...Harvard Auxiliary Fireman's job was not always all work and no play. The group took on the aspect of an informal club when there was no work to be done and this is the part the old gang remembers best. "Everybody always showed up for those," Perry grinned when asked about the monthly banquets held upstairs in the Faculty Club. After dinner the Boston Fire Chief or other notables in the fire prevention world would speak for a while on modern techniques and use of equipment, and the rest of the evening would be taken up with sports movies...
...gang," says Father Baudry, "was thunderstruck. Lulu told me she took back nothing she had said about priests, but since we were already friends, my presence would be tolerated." In time it came to be eagerly welcomed. Lulu even took to calling him "Begonia" and "my little zebra." In Lulu's he returns kidding for kidding, buys his share of drinks like anyone else, and offers advice or joins serious discussions only when others take the initiative. "There's no question of converting these people except in rare cases," says Father Baudry. "If I tried to do that...
...move." The men looked up to see the business ends of six short-nosed revolvers. Behind the guns were six men in grotesque rubber Halloween masks, chauffeurs' caps and Navy peacoats. "Oh, my God!" groaned Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd. At the gang leader's command, Lloyd ordered a clerk to open a mesh door into the vault room...
While this is going on, Rosie is hijacked by a gang of deserters. The second half of the book is spent largely in playing a rough game of ring-around-Rosie with the hijackers. In the end, Rosie is recovered, Snowy & Co. help bust the deserters' racket, and Snowy and the Italian princess nave made a night of it without class distinctions...