Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Al Capone was public enemy No. 1, an estimated 4,000 Chicagoans died in gang wars in the 15 years from 1920 to 1935. Such niceties as the bulletproof car, the sawed-off shotgun, and the one-way ride* were either inaugurated or raised to their ultimate refinement in Chicago. Such blood-spattered tableaux as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the killing of Gangster Dion O'Banion in a fern bank in his florist shop, glamoured up in Chicago's Front Page newspaper tradition, shocked and thrilled a generation of Americans and Europeans...
...boast to neighbors about what a good provider Bobby was. Bobby hardly ever had to work more than a couple of nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby and his gang. But Bobby was often violently jealous of his wife, and the O'Connors' home life was less than tranquil. Once, after he saw Maggie talking to a man in a bar, Bobby rushed home, grabbed a pair of scissors, and cut all Maggie's and the children...
Coast that old Reese had known: murder and rape, stabbings and gang brawls were the order of any night. The hospital declined with the neighborhood...
...pranks and scrapes of the four little Fitzgeralds could be cut up into two-reelers for Our Gang comedies. One of the funniest has the brothers hooking their grandmother's wig with a fishing line to prove to the neighborhood small fry that she has been scalped by the Indians. The final episode in the book is funny, pathetic and brave. On his dying day Papa put on his boots and Mama would not let the attending doctor take them off because Papa always "wanted to die with his boots on." It's things like that that give...
...professors who give lectures at the College and those who get lectures at home, to students with unwashed feet in Lamont, to the Superintendent of All Janitors, and to the mailman resting from his labours. To professors taking meals on the cheap in the drug stores, equally with the gang in the Faculty Club, and to students whose fathers went to Harvard along with those whose fathers chose to go to the dogs, we give a glad greeting...