It beats the band how wicked some of these cigarette desperados do get.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
These young desperados are destroying property; they are lawbreakers, many of them doubtless, incipient criminals.
"Calvary Alley"
Alice Hegan Rice
But when our "desperados" increase the value of the land by their presence and by the labor they expend on it, they make it at the same time increasingly attractive as a place of settlement to people who are better off.
"The Jewish State"
Theodor Herzl Commentator: Louis Lipsky Alex Bein