Word: roughnecking
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...grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar . . . has little to do with the sort of 'reality' one has in mind here. . . . Underneath ... is something else-something taut and eager, quickly sensitive; something that boils and struggles in there, that answers and leaps. Touch or pierce that roughneck façade, ever so lightly, and that other something starts, flames, comes leaping back. "There is about him a touch of that agelessness that goes with genius. . . . "... One gets an impression of exceptional force, of honesty, intelligence and absence of flubdub and pretense. . . . ". . . Potentialities of responsive and responsible leadership...
...Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...verbal garbage at the commonwealth. Said Mr. Cosgrave: "I also want to say a word about that great and grossly libeled man, the Mayor of Chicago. If I were not a man of the world and experienced in politics I would have expected to meet a tough and a roughneck. Instead I was received and honored by a great big, kindly, genial, American, so bubbling over with plans for the betterment of his city that he talked about hardly anything but the plan to connect Chicago with the sea and make her America's greatest city...
Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but beneath your rugged exterior I know there is a heart of the finest gold...