Word: roughnecking
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...personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
After the fight, Roughneck Rocky Graziano swaggered to his dressing room, wearing a big grin. It contrasted with the bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around...
Bobo's Beau. Last October, she got a Reno divorce. She returned to New York, and with her sister Isobel moved back into the Third Avenue apartment where she had lived with Sears. Winthrop, who had gone to Yale, had worked as a roughneck in Texas oilfields, and been wounded off Okinawa, began...
Playwright Lavery-hoping to rouse men's minds by tickling their ribs-has written a comedy about a roughneck (Hollywood's Anthony Quinn, making his first Broadway bow) who hijacks his way into Congress. To attract attention there, he introduces a bill calling for World Government. Soon he really believes in the bill, and is using gangster tactics to get it passed. That is the end of him as a Congressman, but the beginning...
...reputation, her job and her home. Unable to face the truth, she has fashioned a dream world in which she is highbred, sought after and straitlaced. Her dream is her main luggage when she arrives destitute in New Orleans to "visit" her sister Stella and Stella's roughneck Polish-American husband Stanley...