Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere" robbery was John Mahoney's second offense, for which he got a mandatory sentence of 30 to 60 years under the Baumes Law. He led a gang of young bandits in a Manhattan holdup, shot two people, almost killed one. Had the man died, John Mahoney would have gone to the electric chair. If Richard Whitney should commit another felony, using a gun, he would get what John Mahoney...
While baseball fans chased such hypotheses round in circles, Dizzy Dean's old teammates, the irrepressible Gas House Gang with whom he has been cavorting ever since he entered big-league baseball, were plainly grieved. But General Manager Branch Rickey sounded the curt keynote of the front office: "The Cardinals will now be a 23-player club, not a Dizzy Dean club...
...childhood, Author Stuart remembers rabbit-hunting first, hard work next. At nine he hired out to a well-to-do farmer for 25? a day. From eleven to 15 he stopped school to cut corn and timber, work on a paving gang. In high school he licked hell out of a 200-lb. bully. At 18, after running away with a carnival, he worked in a Birmingham steel mill. At Lincoln Memorial, a mountain college in Tennessee, he almost killed a hazer the first day, again licked the school bully, was editor of the college literary magazine. At Vanderbilt University...
...wall that caught the orange sunset light on many tall plane surfaces rising into crenellations and square towers and domes and slatecapped spires. . . ." But in general it is laconic: "Here we are sitting on our tails again," he wrote, when the caravan was delayed by bandits. "This ibn Haremis gang is a rare one. . . . Such a set of walleyed, crooknosed, squinting, oneeyed, scarfaced cutthroats and slit-purses I have never seen. ... I imagine they'd be very good fellows if you got to know them...
...audiences liked the variation. After a try at vaudeville singing he got into films, posed as a cameraman, worked as a gagman, then got a chance at directing. As a director he is best at purposeful melodrama (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,They Won't Forget), which he usually endows with newsreel clarity, noteworthy ingenuity. In drawing-room comedy his approach is parvenu...