Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...store clerk's prospects bought Hupmo-biles, he received a Hupmobile free. With Seminole planning bigger & better contests, Super-Salesman Andrews, who is never given to understatement, now says that the results of his toilet paper tie-up are so amazing that his competitors are preparing to gang...
...Knew Too Much (Gaumont British) follows the formula of old Hollywood gangster pictures in its climactic scene which shows London's Wapping transformed into a shambles when the police bombard a gang of anarchists in their hideaway. Nonetheless, the picture can by no means be pigeonholed as a feeble foreign imitation of the films which many cinemaddicts found among the most satisfactory ever made in the U. S. Alfred Hitchcock's direction, in which the story is told in sharp, abbreviated sequences gathering speed steadily toward their explosive climax, makes The Man Who Knew Too Much...
...know the customs of the country. He was having a fine time, however, and thought everyone was as nice as could be, until one fine day a strapping girl persuaded him to go swimming with nothing on. A policeman ran him in, the girl's brother got a gang together and beat him up. Disillusion dawning, Uan went away from there. On a bus to Salt Lake City a stranger gypped him out of his remaining cash. Undaunted, Uan turned hobo. In adversity he discovered a few good companions : a fellow-hobo, a beautiful girl who gave...
...Brockton. Mass., a gang of small boys elected Edward Smith, 9, and Robert Dobryzinski, 8, to play the cowboys in a game of "Cowboys and Indians." The Indians captured the cowboys, lashed them to a tree, heaped paper and dry grass around them and lit the execution fire. The cowboys watched the fire nervously while the Indians went dancing, shouting and screaming in a victory dance. Suddenly they heard a higher screaming, stopped. Robert Dobryzinski had wiggled free but Edward Smith's clothing was on fire. The boy died in the hospital...
Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...