Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...packed the kids (two sisters) off to Harlem, leaving their father for good, and set about supporting her children as a seamstress on $14 a week. "Ray learned early you don't get nothing for nothing," Mrs. Smith says. He never forgot it. Traveling with a rowdy street gang, shooting crap in Harlem gutters, dancing for dimes on Broadway street corners, the harum-scarum kid got into more than the normal amount of trouble, including a marriage when he was 16,* a divorce when...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME...
Manager Paul Rapier Richards has one hard & fast rule for his Chicago White Sox: "They've got to play hard and want to win. Last week, whippeting around the bases with a headlong dash reminiscent of the famed St. Louis Gas House Gang, the White Sox were both playing hard-and winning. They wound up their first invasion of the East with seven straight victories, the first time in modern American League history that a Chicago team ever made a clean sweep on an Eastern trip...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME...