Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English cousins call it "brickbats". There will be those who will oppose it one the grounds the veterans should not be discriminated against nor should their declining years be thus robbed of innocent amusement, and there are those who will say that youth should be served, and that every, thug should have his day; there will be alumni who will cry out saying that it weakens the team, but it is safe to say that the opposing coaches will have no quarrel with the suggested move. Time and the reaction of the inmates as measured by the frequency of attempt...
...something more than the snailspace which is causing such widespread disillusion with the entire scheme of dispute-settlement. In strikes, the element of time is absolutely vital to the union involved; and delay in arbitration may quash the walk-out more surely, more disappointingly than an army of thug-scabs...
...Florida sweat-box and the steam-heated cosy little chintz-curtained cells of our more modern institutions. The ideal probably is somewhere in between, with more consideration given to the casual, petty, or youthful wrongdoer, and much less to the case-hardened tough-and-proud-of-it thug and gunman...
...this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard is relaxing too easily from his position of stern and examining rectitude. Possibly Mr. Villard is right, and Mr. Blanshard is right, in withdrawing support from...
Sample task at Warwick: to prove to the boys that gangsters are no heroes. When Owney Madden, Manhattan thug, beer-&-whiskey runner, and night club operator, recently returned to Sing Sing (probably to escape competitors who want to maim him), Warwick boys wrote him letters which were sympathetic and full of hero worship...