Word: bandido
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Downtown, Secrets of the Reef, at the Exeter, La Strada, at the Kenmore, War and Peace, at the Met, and Bandido, at Loew's State and Orpheum...
That was true. The good old Spanish word bandido, meaning bandit, is not quite the same thing. Mexicans have imported the word "gangster," unchanged, into their colloquial speech. The Spanish might do the same; but they are more conservative, linguistically, and anyway this hardly seemed a good time...
Spaniards are referring to Franco as "Esteban" these days; when you ask them why, they look around furtively and explain gleefully: "Que se marche este bandido!" ["May this bandit get the hell...
...wheel - five cartridges in their guns. Some - mighty unpopular - "were so tough they'd growed horns and was haired over." Their gun battles were called corpse and cartridge occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck he was hung up to dry, or exalted...