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Word: badman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Cagney forsakes the city gangster to become an Oklahoma badman. The change isn't too convincing, but Cagney manages to shoot, mutilate, and generally manhandle other badmen in spite of the change in roles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...Badman Bogart has been cashiered from the U.S. Army for theft. But it soon becomes apparent that this was merely a ruse to put him to work in Army Intelligence. His quarry is Sociologist Greenstreet, brain of a Japanese plot to bomb the Panama Canal. At Colon, nerveless Hero Bogart busts the plot, shoots down the Japanese bomber with a captured machine gun, and all ends gruesomely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Listen, Judge. In Chicago, a Texas badman, Taylor N. Whichard, told the judge that if all charges against him were dropped, he would personally rub out Adolf Hitler. The judge, unmoved, gave him nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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