Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could have been at further remove from the new-found refinement of the great country houses than Satirist William Hogarth, whose province was the raucous underside of London. Hogarth painted The Painter and His Pug as an unframed self-portrait, propped up by volumes of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, and intended it to be used as the frontispiece for his collected engraved works. Later, after he engaged in a ferocious political quarrel with John Wilkes and Charles Churchill (no kin), Hogarth issued a fresh impression. In it his portrait was replaced by a vitriolic caricature of "Bruiser" Churchill, drawn...
...downtown San Francisco and all along the Bohemian strip known as North Beach, other poets and hipsters were gigging together to the raucous applause of the city's beard-and-sandal set. The poetry was usually poor and the jazz was worse, but nobody seemed to care. Record business was being done by dim little jazz spots such as the Sail'N and the Black Hawk-the Taj Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with...
...spirited young towhead with lively blue eyes and a raucous manner. Philip spent his earliest years in a Paris crowded to the rafters with the relics of outmoded monarchies. Years later, as a dashing young British naval lieutenant in Mel bourne. Australia, he described himself good-humoredly as "a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction." But as a small boy. the little Prince deeply resented the background that made him different from other people. Once when an-old friend of the family introduced him to a stranger as "Prince Philip, the grandson of a King of Greece...
Born. To Jerry Lewis, 31, raucous movie and TV comedian, and Patti Palmer Lewis, 32: a fourth son, fourth child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Christopher Joseph. Weight...
...cyclists said that they will not start or stop their vehicles "underneath the Houses" after 11:30 p.m.; that they will have no "excessively raucous or wild operation of motorcycles at any time;" and use "resaonable" courtesy when operating their machines...