Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mondell rapped for order. The organ began to play and the galleries began to sing "Hail, hail the gang's all here?all except Wisconsin, all except Wisconsin...
...songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That song was written by Walter Kittridge of the Second New Hampshire Infantry...
...days later Signor Giunta, Nationalist Deputy, imprudently referred to the Socialists as "that gang" and pointed to the Opposition benches where, unfortunately, perfectly good Constitutionalists sat. Up jumped irate General Roberto Bencivenga, clumped into the centre of the Chamber, followed by a good round hundred equally irate Deputies. A fist fight followed, in which the General was knocked out, and many black eyes, bloody noses and thick ears resulted. Next day the General challenged Deputy Giunta to mortal combat...
...This gang has worked harder this week than they have ever worked before in their lives," said Coach Herbert after yesterday afternoon's work-out, and everyone will be in top condition Saturday providing there are no injuries tomorrow. Every day this week, the squad has taken four laps around the outside of the Stadium at the start of practice and three laps at the close, with three hours of scrimmaging in between...
...fights off a band of Apaches known as "the Pack" while they try to smuggle out of France the secret army plans that nowadays replace the child and the papers in well-built melodrama. It is rather like seeing the head waiter at Sherry's stand off a gang of real tough-mugs from the Bowery. One cannot quite believe it. But one feels properly thrilled at the finish when there is an exciting chase through the clouds that transfers the underworld to the upper world. Then it is that active Jack wins in Dorothy Dalton the girl confederate...