Word: desperadoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceed. I've been asked what I think of American football. Well, I'll be frank. When I saw about 40 hunched and helmeted figures charge out on the field my first instinct was to fly. They all looked like an Australian desperado named Ned Kelly. This gentleman was a bush ranger (first cousin to a gangster), who, in the last century, acquired a coat of chain mail, made himself a helmet out of a kerosene tin, and terrified the Australian bush by daring feats of robbery and violence...
With nothing left of the $5,000 she says she received from Federal agents for putting the late Desperado John Dillinger on the spot, buxom Mrs. Anna Sage, "The Woman in Red," abandoned her long fight to escape deportation for operating a disorderly house in Gary, Ind. Next week she will be shipped back to her native Rumania. Remaining in the U. S. are Husband Alexander Sage and Son Steve...
Cagily the protectors of the peace surrounded the House, leaving not avenue of escape of their unsuspecting prey. The desperado, however, seemed little disturbed. He merely kept on his peaceful way, tugging now and then at the fence running along the edge of the roof...
Ever since she was found with Desperado John Dillinger on the night of his killing, Mrs. Anna Sage, "The Woman in Ked, has denied she tipped off Federal agents. Faced with deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...
Fleeing Yankee soldiers after his first killing, "Wes" Hardin ambushed them, killed three. Then he hid in central Texas and, with his cousin "Simp" Dixon, killed two more, which made him a popular Texan in the eyes of ex-Confederates. At 16 Hardin, mocked by a desperado who stole his gun and boots, salved his pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed...