Word: desperado
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...years, Convict Buchalter had become politically significant. A minor desperado had grown into the first tangible issue between potential 1944 Presidential Candidates Tom Dewey and Franklin Roosevelt...
Died. Dr. John E. Osborne, 84, onetime governor of Wyoming (1893-95) ; in Rawlins, Wyo. He once had a pair of shoes fashioned from the hide of George "Big Nose") Parrott, posse-lynched desperado...
...daughter Barbara," explains Author Bemelmans airily, in this latest funny travelogue. Barbara, aged three-and-a-half, is the intimate of "the captains of at least half a dozen liners," and "pen pal of some future desperado." Barbara has met nice people everywhere, "and left them nicely alone." Her heart belongs to Daddy and to a host of "socially maladjusted" bums and crooks she has picked up in Cuba, Paris, Gramercy Park, Chile, Peru, Ecuador...
...gunman put his gun to his head and shot himself. He was identified as Lyman Finnell, ex-convict and parole violator. Several blocks away another of the thugs was run to ground in a taxi. He was one Joseph Kress, a young man with an old record. Desperado No. 3 escaped...
...travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would tell cheering crowds not to get enthusiastic, would say: "Watch the pot on your own stove." If conditions got better, keep Muñoz Marin and his party in office; if not, throw them...