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...Rough country ladies," turned bandits, carried off "many young men of rich families" and held them for ransom. Some of the "ladies" were pretty, so the captives got married and settled down to a life of banditry. Meanwhile, picked soldiers, "more heartless in treatment of their captives than the men in the interior districts," were "armed with modern pistols and iron clubs" and sent to "get" the "rough country ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bandits and Pirates | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...that the role of gullible husband is a thankless one. As Tarlow, the perfect lover, Mr. Darney is indisputably good, doing double service as the final agent of the forces of justice and as a never failing source of comic relief. Miss Roach his a hard task as the heartless thief of love and husbands and does it well; alternating with grace between the gracious lady and the unfeeling gold digger. The rest of the caste, Mark Kent as Judge Perry and Anna Layng as Mrs. Davis especially, maintain the high average set by their associates...

Author: By J. D. J., | Title: BOSTON STOCK COMPANY IN "LAWFUL LARCENY" | 10/31/1923 | See Source »

...perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic opera. Mr. Rogers is dreadfully sophisticated. But perhaps "Retrospect" is not his last word on life. "A Thought" represents him in a less heartless mood. Mr. Parson expresses in a meditative sonnet his awareness of the power...

Author: By W. C. Greene ., | Title: Current Advocate Uniformly Good | 4/14/1916 | See Source »

...author has presented his own character in Fantasio, and in all his other plays for that matter. In "Jacquetin" he has drawn an adorable and hateable picture of the heartless woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Doumic's Sixth Lecture. | 3/14/1898 | See Source »

DEAR SIRS: - My room-mate, W. L. Webb L. S., had $25 stolen from his locker in the gymnasium today. This sum represented more than 100 hours work; and he had collected it toward paying his term bill. It would be a very heartless thief who would take money under such circumstances. I hope he will return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/6/1895 | See Source »

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