Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Worth, Tex., a young woman signed the registry with her rightful name- Jessie James Outlaw...
...Minnie is heroine of the David Belasco play which Puccini adapted. She keeps a saloon in a California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers Dick Johnson, outlaw in disguise. Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides him. A drop...
...months later-on All Fool's Eve-Bandit-catcher Hanneken annihilated Osiris Joseph, another Haitian outlaw, and his retinue. For this Hanneken won the Navy Cross...
...Bugle" is one of the better dog stories. It deals with the adventures attendant upon the life of a hunting dog in the wilder regions of the West, and there is no lack of action in the incidents leading up to a stirring climax in the fight with an outlaw grizzly...
...limpid spring months he spent at an outlaw camp, favorite of the only woman -a girl whose hair had turned white with the War. Babka weaned him body and soul from the starvation of trenches and prison; then reluctantly sent him on, his identity of escaped prisoner well camouflaged by the clothes and identification-tag of dead Bjuscheff, Russian deserter...