Word: banditti
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...General Butler, then a major, led a Marine detachment to Fort Riviere, an old French stronghold on a high hill 20 mi. south of Cape Haitien. It was held by rebellious "Cacos" (native banditti). Major Butler was the third man to enter the fortress through a breach in the fort's thick wall...
...Chicago last week, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone appeared at the Municipal Courthouse to answer a charge of vagrancy, the antique legal device by which loud Judge John Homer Lyle once hoped to curb the city's banditti (TIME, Oct. 13). The officer who had signed the complaint against Scarface admitted that he did not know him, could not swear that the gangster was without legal means of support or "frequented disreputable resorts...
...nefarious activities of Mayor Ruffu and his banditti, the Journal has reported...
Meteor. The eyeballs of Alfred Lunt appear to contract with mad fixity of vision as he seethes through the part of Raphael Lord, adventurer and egoist extraordinary. Having hobnobbed with Central American banditti and other peculiar and remote persons, Lord appears at a New England college, drawn by the writings of one of its dead professors, but leaves almost immediately, enraged with the pedantic stagnation of the place and bearing away with him the vivid daughter (Lynn Fontanne) of the great teacher. Having learned of the weak heart of her other suitor, a mighty footballer, Raphael has spurred the athlete...
Pondering these facts, last week, seasoned travelers felt a twinge of regret that efficient, Fascist Carabinieri will now go to tidy up unspoiled, unmodernized Sardinia. Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene...