Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked over to the phonograph and shuffled through the records, grimaced at the Kiss Me Kate album. "You fellows will be quiet next year, won't you? I mean, you don't talk loudly or sing all the time? "B" entry is quiet, you know. Our gang doesn't like a lot of noise." We reassured...
...syllables marked him as no son of New England or Middle West. The truth came out. He was a renegade Virginian who had resigned his West Point commission only to reaccept it in time for First Bull Run. He then went west to perform yeoman service in breaking a gang of horse rustlers working with a fantastically honorable bunch of Southern officers. The real villain was a traitorous Yankee colonel (I think from Vermont) whom Cooper brought to grief in the final reel. Save your Yankee dollars boys, the Nawth will rise again...
...year-old leader of the gang admitted to the police that he had planned the attack on a Jewish boy for some time, Burg said. The leader's stepfather is a Jewish criminal lawyer...
...born in Havana, the son of one of Spain's own soldiers, on Jan. 28, 1853. At 15 he was jailed for his sympathies with the rebels in the unsuccessful Ten Years War (1868-78) against Spain. He served 18 months, six of them on a chain gang in a quarry, where he was burned by quicklime and flogged by guards. Then he was exiled to Spain. Except for three brief return trips, he spent the rest of his life outside Cuba-in Spain, France, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela and the U.S., "the land where everyone is his own master...
...year (1949), his curriculum ranged from semi-starvation to marching till his feet blistered, from writing whoppers as a "People's Correspondent" for the New China News Agency, to a minor post with the Ministry of Propaganda - while inwardly he fought to keep Mao Tse-tung and gang from using his brain as a Marxist sewage disposal dump...