Word: louts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight was important, not because the contestants were famous, but because they used different and interesting styles of wrestling. The Bahian lout fought after the manner of Brazilian capoeira. This is the national style of fighting; it includes blows as well as grips and it was perfected, as might be imagined, by a huge band of Hoodlums who once terrorized Rio de Janeiro. Even kicks in the head are allowed and the Bahia Negro attempted these, without avail, against his little foeman...
...doll which suggested a good number in a musical show, he made a fortune and won the heroine, impersonated by the spry and pretty Barbara Newberry. Aside from the mechanical innovations, the most noteworthy ingredient of Good Boy was Charles Butterworth, cast in the role of a cynical farm-lout. This curious and doleful personage often put his hands above his head and remarked, "Oh, the pity...
...author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
Patrolmen Sheehan and Gillee took note. "An anarchist, maybe!" said Patrolman Gillee. On seeing a great lout, lumbering along the nearly deserted street, firing off a gun in crazy fashion they were convinced. Overtaking Patrolman Burns, they whacked his head with clubs, searched him for explosives, found his police shield...
Fifty years ago, a gypsy boy of 17, with honeyed voice and horny hands, found God in the boom-diddy-boom of Salvation Army drums in the East London slums. General William Booth asked him to rejoice with a solo. "Keep your heart up, my boy," snickered a street lout who had not seen the light...