Word: rakishness
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...care, hard-drinking fellows, or they are men who really have been indulging beyond the point of sobriety. If they are not Freshmen, in the first case, they ought to know that men do not win instant and lasting popularity or admiration from other men by being such rakish chaps, and in the second, they should have learned to behave in a respectable way despite the circumstances. What a surprise it would be if these roving bands, without being urged, should hereafter when excess of spirit or spirits overtakes them, retire to some vacant field and there make...
...GOOD-NATURED Lion, a literary Owl, a rakish Fox, and an innocent young Kid once agreed to hunt together, with the agreement that all game should be amicably shared. No sooner were they in the Forest, than the Fox took the Kid aside, and made this harangue: "My dear Kid, you are inexperienced in hunting; come, you and I will hunt together, while this stupid Lion is asleep, and we will divide whatever prey we find, and have the Lion's share to ourselves." To this the Kid readily agreed, and the two succeeded in bringing down a Hare...
...letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch Clyde-built steamer, English bottom, long, low, rakish hull, B. No. 3. Interrupted by pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop his man, - no cap, and proper position...