Word: bandit
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Last year: "Sergei Yessenin has just written me that he has gone into the Caucasus to become a bandit. ... He writes that he is going to be a robber for the thrills. ... He wants to write poetry about robbery, and feels that he must gain experience as a bandit...
Unfortunately the story lost itself with the pearl king among a gang of pickpockets and confidence men, posing as a domestic group. Leatrice Joy, known in Hollywood as the woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination...
Only four months after its last appearance there, "The Bad Man", Porter Emerson Browne's famous comedy, is back on the Copley stage with Alan Mowbray again swaggering about and smoking innumerable cigarettes in the character of Pancho Lopez, the swash-buckling, villainous and altogether charming bandit hero...
...Harvey J. Howard, American kidnapped by bandits in Manchuria (TIME, July 27) was located in a bandit camp. An emissary of General Feng, Chinese Christion soldier, went forth to negotiate for his release-saying it might take a month...
...completely circled the scene of their crime. Lincoln Park policemen on the running boards of commandeered automobiles followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences on one side, a little strip of lawn and the broad lake on the other, the chase led, thence into Lincoln Park. The bandit car collided with another and was wrecked. Two of the men escaped. The third commandeered a taxi, trampled a woman occupant on the floor, and went wildly on firing at his pursuers until the taxi was wrecked. He then was cornered. And the champion revolver shot of the Park police...