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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which he wished to broadcast from his pack-set. Mary stole the pack-set, found it handy after she was kidnapped by a gang of thugs occupied in stealing a Federal gold shipment, armored car and all. It was Eddy Haines who, riding in a blimp over the Kentucky mountains, oriented her position on his receiving set, guiding G-Men to the rescue none too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 24, 1937 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Dozens of girls in nightdresses and pyjamas watched the battle from dormitory windows. They screamed hysterically and urged the police to drive back the hooligans." Exemplifying the fact that a story can be enlarged by travelling across the sea, the Express reports that "the crazy gang of undergraduates" battled the defenders of the girls' domain "for more than three hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: London Daily Express Column Carries Exaggerated Story of Recent Riot Here | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...more logical to deduce that the dastardly deed at Duck Hill typifies the spirit of Mississippi than to conclude, on the basis of gang killings and torture slayings, that all New Yorkers are murder-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing through the picket lines by snapping their photographs for a "scabs' gallery." Worst violence occurred when a gang of 50 men with hammers and clubs raided headquarters of the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes, Hollywood's No. 1 labor group, which actively opposed the strike. After the battle, five I. A. T. S. E. men were carted off to hospital with cuts, bruises, broken bones. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...There was dancing in Westminster Abbey. Anxious police officials at the last minute marched a gang of thick-booted workmen into separate sections of the grandstands and told them to dance and stamp to test the structures' strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Musk, Civet & Ambergris | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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