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As Jerry Plunkett, a Brooklyn braggart, James Cagney is not only a disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns coward under fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today's designers, working laboriously by trial & error, are creating the semisavage "primitives" of the machine age.

From Time Magazine Archive

That there was but one better quality which pertained to her semisavage disposition—the faculty of physical fortitude and self-sacrifice, and another, though not always an attribute of the noble savage—Truth.

From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret