Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recent history of the Free State is blackened by murders as bad as ever blackened the history of any country, but the Government is determined to hold the murder gang in check. ... It is likely that provision will be made for the establishment of a special tribunal to try certain cases, this body to be vested with powers to impose a capital sentence...
...bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband to desert his mistress...
Sirs: In your review of the Ziegfeld Follies, July 13 issue, you refer to the Britton Gang Orchestra as "breaking peanut brittle violins...
...Gang's Violins...
Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...