Word: rakishness
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With puritanic prudence, the council felt they could not name a street after the rakish Steerforth. "Tis a pity, for what more appropriate designation could be found for some dark lane on the outskirts of the town. Although Steerforth must remain in Yarmouthian oblivion, the other characters will be immortalized on street corners. The councillors may well be satisfied with their work. In one stroke, they have protected public morals and preserved the memory of Dickens...
...White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph. He presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames and smoke issuing from between his toes...
...Amerlean Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Atterbury's biography, if drawn up by the late Alger, might be entitled, From Apprentice to President. Although he began his formal career as a shop apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, he is a graduate of Yale (1886), wears a rakish hat, offsets a flashy taste in ties with a grizzled military mustache...
Frans Hals is represented in this group by his Portrait of a Man-a Cavalier in a rakish hat, white ruff, glancing over his shoulder. Hals reproduced this gentleman's debonair carriage, reproduced also, in delicate red, the warts that marred his countenance...
...bars, lunchrooms, paddocks, wherever sportsmen gather, you see them-frayed bravos with cauliflower cars, rakish noses, thick necks, entreating eyes. They catch your glance, they wink, edge over. It is no drink that they want, no sandwich, no news about a pretty thing in the second race. They want to impart something. For these are the fallen kings of boxing,' they who have knocked out champions and never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge...