Word: brigands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whip. But bettors disliked him, because when the Crocodile saw he couldn't win a race, he often stopped trying. "If the owner wants me to place, I try, but I don't like to ride a horse into the ground for nothing." English fans nicknamed him "brigand"; in France, he is called voleur (thief) more often than le roi des jockeys...
...rainy mist sweeps gently o'er the village by the stream, When from the leafy forest glades the brigand daggers gleam . . . And yet there is no need to fear or step from out their way, For more than half the world consists of bigger rogues than they...
...many Chinese, all fossils are "dragon bones." Along with tiger claws, bat dung and blood from a brigand's heart, fossils used to be powdered, dissolved in acid and used as a specific for every indisposition, from dysentery to bullet wounds...
Some feared that the ronin - unemployed feudal warriors, many of whom turned brigand on the pretext of purifying the nation - would roam Japan again. Demobilization plus unemployment might bring thousands of modern ronin...
Books that he praises, even unknowns like Rudolph Altrocchi's Sleuthing in the Stacks and Alan Kapelner's Lonely Boy Blues, became sell-outs on the Coast. The San Francisco Grabhorn Press's de luxe edition of Joaquin Murrieta, The Brigand Chief of California was sold to the last copy the day after Jackson praised it over the air. When he panned such nationwide best-sellers as Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas, they ceased to sell on the Coast. (But Dale Carnegie...