Word: highwayman
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...Beggar's Opera (Warner) brings John Gay's renowned, raffish 18th century opera to the screen in English for the first time.* In the role of the highwayman Macheath, Shakespearean Actor Laurence Olivier also sings on the screen for the first time, in an agreeable, light baritone, and makes a fine, swashbuckling badman...
...Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Reed (TIME, July 6), the battle to extend the excess profits tax for six months was won. Last week Ways & Means sent an extension bill to the floor. During the five-hour debate, Virginia's Democrat Howard Smith compared the Administration to a highwayman who says: "Now give me your wallet. I know I ought not to do it . . . but I need the money, and I give you my solemn assurance ... I will never do it to you again." Smith's sally drew laughs, including a hearty peal from Dan Reed. But when...
Noyes's next success, The Highwayman, carried him even further-into "scores of anthologies and several hundred schoolbooks in England and America." It has since become the basis of two cantatas (one by Deems Taylor) and, like another popular Noyes work, Dick Turpin's Ride, the theme of a movie. On these successes Scotsman Ian Crawford based his fine parody, Hollywood Highwayman, with its memorable third stanza...
Posterity is likely to take a kinder view. If he never wrote an "experimental" poem in his life, his Highwayman is still one of the most rousing rhymes in the schoolbooks, and is long apt to be so. If his preferred friends on two continents were unfailingly genteel-and apt, like himself, to deplore "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated"-he has written, in Two Worlds jor Memory, a candid and gossipy account life & letters on the old Right Bank...
...received 83,290 prisoners. Each convict had to work out his stretch at something close to slave labor, either on a private farm or on state works. Brutality drove many to escape and outlawry, so the old petty larcenist became the new bushranger-a combination of rustler and highwayman. In the public mind, he also lost his criminal record and became one who "robbed the rich and helped the poor, and never harmed a lady...