Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gang and the New Gang" were actually addressed to the Mr. and Mrs. Everybody of the first three chapters, the book would have little worth; for to them, to all but the few, its tone of complete scorn and sophisticated humor would be meaningless. To be sure, Mr. Lewis uses an imitation of Everybody's "langwidge," rich in "the missis" and "guys," and other expressions of the "Capone era," but his clever turns of phrase his pungent sarcasm are his own. It is to the intellectuals, to readers able to appreciate Lewis' habitual esoterica, that he writes, and his remarks...
...going now, do you? Sit down awhile. Don't often seen anyone around here now except to take exams. It's not like the old days--nothing is for that matter. Say, I remember when the boys used to go over to Brighton to fight the town pool-hall gang. It wasn't all beer they had inside 'em then either! Then there were real riots--gness we won't see many more of those. Well, we'll have beer again soon. But take it from me, beer never has drowned a Harvard thirst...
...goat becomes gradually tired from eating tin kens, tin kens, tin kens, tin kens." A riot destroys the City Hall, scares the politicians into adopting City Managership. They drop their differences and become a "non-parteesian" party. With the new City Manager at the head of the same old gang, the same old round begins all over...
...DEVIL'S PASSPORT-Gordon Young -Century ($2). Hard Man Everhard oils his guns, smashes a Paris gang for Uncle Sam's Secret Service...
...During the Harding Administration Thomas Woodnut Miller, Alien Property Custodian, was on the fringe of the "Ohio Gang." As the liquidated assets of American Metals Co., seized during the War, he paid $6,453,979 to a German capitalist named Richard Merton representing a Swiss concern. As his "fee" Merton turned $441,000 in Liberty Bonds over to G. O. Politicians. Of this sum $50,000 was traced to Miller who claimed he received it as payment of a debt the party owed him. Other amounts went to Jesse Smith. Attorney General Harry Daugherty's henchman, and to Connecticut...