Word: raffishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Juan Antonio Rios of Chile dropped into Manhattan to dedicate raffish Sixth Avenue as the Avenue of the Americas. He also decorated old friend Nelson Rockefeller, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, with Chile's Order of Merit, threw himself into an all-out Latin embrace that tickled Father John D. pink (see cut). Then he headed for Hollywood...
...days later an outraged posse arrived at Susanna Wells's popular brothel in Enfield Wash (a section of London), house they found a raffish crew: susanna Wells herself; Sal Howit, her daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old gypsy named Mary Squires. But for all its ominous air, the house failed to match Elizabeth's description. The only room that could possibly have been her "empty loft" was thick with ancient, unbroken cobwebs. One window was boarded, but there was another not even latched. There were no footprints...
...watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers and medicine men, sellers of gingerbread, purveyors of run, keepers of dancing bears, and ladies of easy virtue. The College Corporation was much worried by these raffish accompaniments to their solemn exercises. Unable to persuade the Cambridge authorities to keep the populace in order for Commencement brought money into the village they tried the dodge of keeping the date of Commencement a secret until a few days beforehand. This created such indignation among the graduates who counted on attending...
...These raffish antics lead to some funny moments but a flimsy evening. Playwright Kirkland's low-lifers are not rich and genuine creations who need only exist to amuse; they are hell-raisers who can score only in action. Since Suds boasts no plot, the gals keep weaving in circles, as much from author-trouble as from beer...
From the politely raffish Deanery to the swank Savoy, there was moaning at London bars last week. U.S. Army officers quartered in London had some bad news. The Army had amputated their allowances: $6 a day for housing; $1.25 a day plus $21 a month for food. It was going to take over the rooming and eating business, operate on a more economical and space-saving scale...