Word: roughneck
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...because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale, set out to be the first Rockefeller since his grandfather to go into the oil business for a career.* First stop was in Jennings, La., where he boarded at Mrs. Inez Daugherty's Ardennes Hotel, labored with a "roughneck" gang in Humble's Roanoke field. From Louisiana he went to Texas again, did all manner of tasks, became a deputy sheriff so he could carry a gun. was arrested for speeding only twice...
...news when a loud-mouthed roughneck gets a black eye. But it is news when a U. S. Senator in his cups commits a nuisance on the trouser leg of a guest at a Long Island party...
...years this presidency has belonged to Darwin Pearl Kingsley, 73. It will soon be conveyed to Thomas Aylette Buckner, 66. Mr. Kingsley will become chairman of the board, a post created for him. With him Mr. Kingsley will carry the memories of his early adventurous days in the roughneck towns of Colorado; also his secret hobby (he is a member of the Hobby Club): Shakespeare. He owns four early folios, including the fabulous first, picked up at Quaritch's in Piccadilly. In the library of his office (in his company's new building on the site of Madison...
...only one incident during President Paul von Hindenburg's tour of the liberated Rhineland which ended last week (see above) was calculated to ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...
...classes or races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This may be the kind of thing that has made critics assert...