Word: riffraff
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...wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park, isolated from the city by a wide belt of old brick houses, garages and disused beer gardens, come all the riffraff of the homely town, and most of its substantial citizens...
...exhausted beggar, in his late 40's. Said he: "I must beg my bread because Kings will not accept the Empires that I offer them." When Ferdinand and Isabella finally fitted out his little fleet of three boats, the crews had to be made up of criminals and riffraff: no one else would join. The voyage of discovery took more than two months: from Aug. 3 to Oct. 12. The first land sighted was an island called by the Indians Guanahani: geographers today think it was Watling Island. Columbus believed it was one of the East Indies; when...
...persons on the chairs were, in the opinion of the constables, "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency." Therefore strong hands were laid upon the young woman, who remained passive, and upon the gentleman, who roared: "Hands off! I'm not the usual riffraff! I'm a man of substance...
...account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised of the riffraff of the city, linked themselves up with certain robber bands from the country districts. "The movement, which was reported as frankly Communistic, was led by Russians. . . . For 48 hours the city was given over to general looting and large sections were burned. "Troops were rushed back to Canton and succeeded...
...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...