Word: bandit
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...Gave to 9-year-old son of a policeman a box of candy for aid in capture of bandit...
...Central Executive Council of the Nationalist Party, to serve as "President of the Government." Not for a long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present, the Nationalists ?who have just wrested China from the grip of the various bandit "war lords"? are frankly constituting themselves as a benevolent oligarchy?with the blessing and full recognition of the U. S. Government (TIME...
Before General Obregon proceeded to "take his turn" he broke the power of Bandit Pancho Villa with the decisive victories of Celaya and Guano Juato, which however cost him his right arm, amputated above the elbow after wounds...
Packard is Packard. An automobile left Tsingtao last week for Peking and points west-the points being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head of the Packard Motor Agency of Shanghai. He and his companions plan to hunt bear, elk, antelope; to meet and visit Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews somewhere in the Gobi
...month later in Paris the bandit's servant presents Janey with a ring of "three great pinky globes of pearls"-souvenir d'amour. But a year later she tells her devoted Anglo-Saxon that what she had felt for di Bari had not been the real thing: she had only thought she was in love. But now. . . . So she gives the American her "glowing beauty . . . the liquid eyes, the satin red cheeks, the cap of loose curls," and a portly income...