Word: bandit
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...highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West spreads her gorgeous corolla (including a butterfly bow that coyly punctuates her posterior rhythms) in Greasewood City, one of the West's wide-open places. There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes...
...General Fu Tso Yi, who sent out a call for a bandit-suppression corps only to have most of the bandits sign up, delighted to double their earnings by plundering at night, suppressing themselves...
...from Twentieth Century-Fox for Shooting High with Jane Withers, makes $10,000 to $12,000 a year on phonograph records that sometimes outsell Bing Crosby's. Another $25,000 a year comes from his magic imprimatur on cap pistols, sweat shirts, cowboy suits, a bandit-hunt game, toothbrushes, bandannas, books, balloons, dolls, a new, syndicated comic strip, make-up kits...
...answers is that we Americans are neutral and, therefore, need do nothing whatever about it. If that were proposed as an explanation of why one did nothing when he saw women and children tortured by fire, or a passerby of whom he had no knowledge, being assaulted by a bandit within plain sight, we should have but one comment to make and that comment would not be very flattering...
...alarm was sent in when the others arrived. The vice-President and Treasurer of the trust company, Phippen, who happened to be outside the building, let the police in. By this time a crowd of 50 people had gathered outside expecting to see a hand-cuffed bandit brought forth...