Word: ganges
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...Theatre Guild has collected seven pretty girls, a gang of cowboys, some border ballads, and a good many dirty jokes, which it has woven into a play that is called, for want of anything better, "Green Grow The Lilacs." When all this was done a plot involving a swash-buckling cowhand, a shy young maiden, and a villian whose hands dripped with the blood of past crimes, was added for the sake of convention. The result is supposed to represent the Indian Territory...
...Melvin cabal: "Old man Melvin brought the linoleum factory here over 50 years ago. He did a great deal for the community. . . . They say Travis was a ship's captain who gave a bell to the Methodist Church. Well, I like Melvin and that's what my gang is voting...
Last week, radiant at the prospect of getting more & more of the 26 Enemies before him, Judge Lyle ordered Sammons held in $150,000 bond for Federal prosecution on hijacking charges. He cancelled all bail for Gang Leader Frank Nitti...
...week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened to an oldtime frontier vigilance committee. A call was issued for complaints from racket victims. These poured in immediately, revealing gang levies on trucking, music, milk, funerals, laundries, freight, cleaning & dyeing...
Chicago's newspapers yammered indignantly, of course, at the "insulting and revolting" proposal, this "outrageous evidence of arrogant municipal gang rule." But in private their hard-boiled editors made remarks like the one quoted at the beginning of this report...