Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police later reconstructed it, one man got out of the car, cut the padlock on the store's outer wicket gate, then picked the lock on the inner door. That done, three more of the gang got out and went into the store with him, while a fifth accomplice put a new padlock on the gate to allay the suspicions of any passing policemen. Inside, the four men forced a safe and swept up a peck of rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces, worth over $110,000. But the night had just begun: in the safe the crooks also found...
...Gang's All Here (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) has the authors of Inherit the Wind once again flipping back in U.S. history to the real life 19203, this time to Warren G. Harding under the name of Griffith P. Hastings. Their portrait is a largely familiar one of a genial poker-playing mediocrity who is hoisted into the White House. His cronies are crooks whom he turns into Cabinet members and on whose strong right claws he leans for support. At the end the authors portray a Harding who commits suicide,* but not until...
...wins sympathy for their hero. But wherever the pull of the play is not purely factual it seems flagrantly fictional, particularly in a weak last act. It brings no insight to any of the questions it raises. It gets beneath none of the skin it flays. Nor does The Gang's All Here always jibe with the facts. Harding (inside the party) was no such convention dark horse as he is made out to be; nor was he quite such an incredible babe in the wood; nor did he gain so much stature at the end. There are several...
...murder of John Guzman, 16, seventh teen-ager killed in street-gang violence in New York City in the past three months, fueled up already blazing feuds between Bronx street gangs. Two days after the killing, police headed off a massive outbreak of violence by nabbing ten Royal Knights allies who were waiting on a Bronx rooftop to ambush an oncoming invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before...
...Gang's All Here. Although the authors (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) insist that they have not confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth is bad theater, but in this case it does not seem to pay. Melvyn Douglas does nobly as the ash-flaked, unbuttoned ex-Senator trying to forget the presidency, an office he neither understands nor is fitted for, and veteran Comedian Bert Wheeler is a natural as his poker-playing sidekick...