Word: bandit
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...British point of view when it referred to the development of Shanghai by foreign, capital from a swamp to a great commercial centre. It added: "If the American Government really meant to hand all this over to a corrupt and ignorant Chinese Mandarin, half magistrate and half bandit, American merchants and traders who have settled in Shanghai would make their voices heard in unmistakable fashion...
...Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects a murderous crew of some two-score?all there were to be found, one feels and touches...
When Holbrook Blinn first created Pancho Lopez, erstwhile Mexican bandit, he made him gorgeous and highly picturesque, but possessed of a certain oleagenous quality that was more reptilian, than romantic. With his black hair well greased and his thick curl closely pasted to his oily forehead, one felt that on a hot day he might ooze out through the cracks in the stage. Avoiding this, Mr. Mowbray makes his Lopez dustier but not so greasy. It is a pleasant change...
...becoming either a way-down-East nature study with one of those everlasting lovable characters in it, or a big battling melodrama of the Western plains. Having proceeded for some time in both of these directions, it suddenly realizes the mistake, and introduces a most ingenious and accomplished Mexican bandit. From then on it is sure fire stuff. It would even be funny in Mexico...
Died. Ion Pardicaris, famed captive of bandit Raisuli; in Chislehurst, England (see POLITICAL NOTES...