Word: outlawful
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Miss O'Hara's story of the son of Flicka, heroine of an earlier production, should by all rights have made fascinating movie fare. In the novel, as indeed in the picture, Thunderhead is an equine throwback to his outlaw grandparent. The story is of a rancher's son who tries to win the horse to the ways of man, who fails, but dramatically grows up in the process...
...Persuader. In St. Paul, a proposed bill to outlaw air rifles met violent opposition from one Minnesota farmer who wanted to know how, if the bill were passed, he could get his bull into the barn...
Prosaic Thriller. The prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...
...four-man Board of Control Toronto elected a man who two years ago was an outlaw. After Canada outlawed the Communist Party, in June 1940, Communist Stewart Smith, 37, hid from the police for two years. Later he surrendered, was held two weeks in jail, then released. Last week, still a communist, he moved into an office in Toronto's City Hall...
Realistic appraisers of human affairs, the bishops were not too sanguine. They could foresee a possible World War III, but hoped that it would be only a "war of punishment for outlaw nations...