Word: ganges
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...Dozens of girls in nightdresses and pyjamas watched the battle from dormitory windows. They screamed hysterically and urged the police to drive back the hooligans." Exemplifying the fact that a story can be enlarged by travelling across the sea, the Express reports that "the crazy gang of undergraduates" battled the defenders of the girls' domain "for more than three hours...
...more logical to deduce that the dastardly deed at Duck Hill typifies the spirit of Mississippi than to conclude, on the basis of gang killings and torture slayings, that all New Yorkers are murder-minded...
...ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing through the picket lines by snapping their photographs for a "scabs' gallery." Worst violence occurred when a gang of 50 men with hammers and clubs raided headquarters of the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes, Hollywood's No. 1 labor group, which actively opposed the strike. After the battle, five I. A. T. S. E. men were carted off to hospital with cuts, bruises, broken bones. When...
...There was dancing in Westminster Abbey. Anxious police officials at the last minute marched a gang of thick-booted workmen into separate sections of the grandstands and told them to dance and stamp to test the structures' strength...
...than his counterpart in the palace until he encounters a young soldier of fortune named Miles Hendon (Errol Flynn). Hendon feeds him, humors his apparently preposterous notion that he is the King of England, sets out, when the boy is kidnapped, to rescue him from John Canty's gang of thieves. When the rescue entails fighting off the palace guards, sent to kill the young King before he can return to foil the Hertford,plot, Hendon begins to think his young protege's ideas of his own grandeur may not be delusions after all, hurries him back...