Word: boistrous
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...University legendary for the boistrous and vociferous opinions of its students, undergraduate participation in yesterday's citywide election seemed sluggish...
...mark of Van Dyck's style is its extraordinary refinement, a delicacy that runs counter to what English 17th century taste had come to expect from Holland: "robustious boistrous druncken headed imaginary Gods," as Charles I's agent in Brussels remarked when trying to decide on an artist from whom to commission a story of Cupid and Psyche...
...children, shaped by their previous educational experience, found it difficult to respond to a teacher who desired respects a person, not as an authority figure. Often, one's class did not operate as a group but rather as eight, somewhat boistrous, separate individuals who seemed more interested in throwing paper air-planes out the window than in accomplishing something in the classroom. Gaining control over the class occupied time and energy that otherwise might have been used to motivate creative class...
STAYING ALIVE must be a struggle for legitimate theater in Boston; a trip to the Charles Playhouse will convince you of that. You walk past some of the city's most picturesquely seedy boarding houses to get there, and during intensely quiet moments on stage, boistrous music from the night club next door throbs through the walls. The management has decided to charge major league prices but can only provide pony league leg-room and ventilation...
...President Pusey would have to throw a party in Widener, followed by a sleigh-ride through the Yard. The IAB pool would stand awash with hot-buttered rum, and Memorial Hall would become a Yule log. Arthur Darby Nock would stroll along Mass. Ave. in a red suit roaring boistrous laughter, while townies pelted him with snowballs. John Finley would be especially jolly, God blessing every Dunster man, and section-men would scamper about putting a blue-book in every stocking, while Dean Leighton would smile serenely down upon the holiday scene...