"Goon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they came to be run, like any other business, for the benefit of those who owned or controlled them. The professional labor leader evolved, motivated by his own interests and finally becoming, in his despotic control of the union, backed by goon squads and gangsters, as powerful a man as was to be found in the country. Seldom were strikes any longer held to better the condition of the individual union members. Instead, the issues were contracts which allowed for fabulous sums to go into the union coffers where ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... watchworks, all the fellows in the neighborhood—gone. At first she hadn't minded. It was exciting. You kidded them at first: "Well, believe me, Chuck, if you shoot the way you play ball, you're a gone goon already." ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... she got over the fricht, and when she saw him on the road next Sabbath, she cooried in ahint ma goon, and cried till I ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren
... Republic of Korea Air Force (Han-guk Kong Goon), Marine Corps, National Maritime ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... his teeth] Goon. Talk politics, you idiots: nothing sounds more respectable. Keep it up, ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... like ivery thing else, but come at diminished intervals when he has really made up his mind to be born (his first mistake, sirs, but not his last); and the paroxysms of his mortal disease come at shorter intervals when he is really goon off the hooks: but still chronometrically; just as watches keep time whether they go fast or slow. Now, jintlemen, isn't ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... a few of Keeluk's goon-gang," von Schlichten was reporting. "But I doubt if they'll tell us anything we don't already know. The dog was gone, but we found where it had been kept; at least one of the rabbits had been there, too. ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper
... wan day The dirty clothes to rub Upon the washboard, when she dived Head foremost o'er the tub; She lit upon her back an' yelled, As she was lying flat: "Go git your goon an' kill the bashte." ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... you oot. Although, as you say, you gave me six months in Liverpool, did not, at that time, connect you with my ain hame. But when I saw your picture as large as life in the house where I lodged, I began to put things together. When I saw you in Liverpool you had your big wig on, and your judge's goon, that's what put me off there, I expect. But in your picture you looked more natural, and I said: 'That's the lad who took ...
— The Day of Judgment • Joseph Hocking |
