Word: ganges
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...first time, the youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...
...Cohesive Emotion. Intellectual Gangster Gilbert Nodiard believes that a well-run gang should have neither program nor ideas. But he is convinced that it must have some kind of "warm and moist emotion of complete complicity" to hold it together. The new German group, the Nazis, he reflects enviously, are bound by the moist emotion of homosexuality-which would never work in France, because French homosexuals are "not a very virile type...
Gangster Nodiard finds the answer to his dreams at a party of young Mayfair married couples. These British bright-young-things meet weekly for elaborate orgies of free love. After attending one of these, Nodiard scuttles back to Paris to initiate his gang. The British see their orgies as strictly nonpolitical pleasures. But to the Nodiard gang "our love meetings will be our Holy of Holies...
...flying squadron of them turned up at Brooklyn's High School for Homemaking, there found some of the girls mad because the school's evening socials had been dropped. Out on strike went a gang of girls, with the war cry: "It's an old maid's institution...
...since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...