Word: riotousness
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Crepe & Cardinals. Sam Breadon was not a shaky character. Back in 1926, when he calmly traded off Rogers Hornsby, the hero who won the first World Series St. Louis ever had, riotous fans hung crepe on Sam's office door, jumped on the running board of his car to shout insults. Sam's chilly blue eyes never flickered. He crossed up the fans again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes...
...meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend are, above all, tributes to a football game that year after year begins with little, brews for sixty minutes, and produces greatness...
Nineteen guys in Crimson jerseys had a wonderful time. They played a very fine football game. And it was a riotous Crimson dressing room that elected Jim Feinberg Yale game captain. In contrast the only member of the visiting contingent that seemed to have enjoyed himself at all was the Brown Bear. The mascot gamboled ever the Stadium turf in a much more impressive manner than anyone else who came from Providence that afternoon...
...garbed in animal skins and satanic horns. When the gang had reported on their success or failure as satanic agents since the last meeting and had finished feasting (usually on a sheep stolen from a farmer), the Master took up his reed pipe and led them in a riotous dance, which ended in a sexual orgy lasting "until the first light of dawn broke up the meeting...
...left-over reading-period assignments should be a simple one. Even the cartoons, several of them by a prewar funnyman, will bring forth a heartier and more frequent chuckle than has resulted from local pictorial humor since candy bars were a nickel. In fact, the whole magazine, while seldom riotous, is the product of a wit that has too long been held in chains within the Bow Street Alcatraz...