Word: ganges
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Soon Atlantic Square was packed by more than 10,000 men & women. They sang The Star-Spangled Banner and Hail! Hail! the Gang's All Here. They shouted and chanted catcalls, cheered the labor leaders who spoke from the Town Hall's steps. They kept it up for two hours, while most business in Stamford stood still...
...tired of school," she said, "and I decided to be an outlaw." ¶ At Bangor, Me., 14-year-old Francis Edwin Varney was charged with murdering his 12-year-old sister with a sharp kitchen knife. ¶ In The Bronx, three teen-age Negro girls, members of a gang known as the "Fivies," were charged with mugging a shopkeeper named Samuel Flamenbaum. Said he: one girl crooked an arm around his neck, choked and held him, while the other two stole a pair of shoes...
Purchasing Agent. Few knew this sly-eyed World War I gunner well. One wretched little man who did was Walter Kadow, who stole the funds of a gang of political assassins in the '205. Bormann served a year in jail for his part in Kadow's murder...
...much like their cities. The young men were "mild, bland, pseudo-serious ... as though turned out by a university with the aid of a chain-store cloak and suit house." The middle-aged were "puffy, wattle-faced, [filling] the land with prosperous, restless, empty-headed, idle-handed widows who gang together in ghoulish sororities. . . ." The aged were "horrible living examples of the embalmer...
...Crimson teams that have strayed far from their traditional opponents during the past three seasons will be back playing the old Ivy League gang next year, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 revealed yesterday. When Bingham left his post in November, 1942, Harvard squads dropped out of most of the Eastern league organizations which they had helped to form...