Word: desperado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself and if he is a desperado or a madman, I shall kill him without the slightest remorse. Most cordially yours...
...quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes." He was unafraid and viewed the spectators lazily. He was the arch-desperado, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...young Hebrew desperado who smashed, crushed but was stupid...
Time and again and again, a wizened little old man flung himself feverishly, but feebly, upon a young Hebrew desperado at the Velodrome, Manhattan. Thus assaulted, the desperado angrily smashed the old man back and down, with crushing blows on the face. At length the ancient, blood-smeared and sick, staggered weakly away...
...quarrel was over a purse−and the world's bantamweight boxing championship. The desperado was Abie Goldstein, "Harlem assassin," titleholder, whose boxing on this occasion was now brilliantly clever, now dismally stupid. The little old man was Charley Ledoux, of France, aged 32, bantamweight champion of Europe, who had come to America a third time ("and last," said he) with titular intentions...