Word: roughnecking
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...South they have not such formal ideas about who is entitled to do what. In the South minor absurdities are soon laughed, or ejaculated, out of existence. And then, Editor Marshall Ballard of the oldest afternoon paper* in the South is no common editor. He is an intellectual roughneck, of the H. L. Mencken type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background...
Some 40 years ago down in Boone County, Indiana, there was a little schoolhouse where assembled day by day a group of pupils regarded as rather thoroughly roughneck. A young teacher appointed to the school was regarded as eminently fitted for the post because ha was six feet tall and molded well...
...Coming of Amos-Rod LaRoque's face has been widely distributed over the countryside on billboards announcing him as a star of the new Cecil B. DeMille organization. His first picture is a retelling of William J. Locke's tale of the young Australian roughneck who saves a Russian princess on the Riviera. Good enough...
...ROUGHNECK-Robert W. Service-Barse and Hopkins ($2.00). " 'Fire, damn you.' . . . 'Hurry,' she cried to the policeman, 'Get help! He's sinking!' . . . 'Hell,' said Jones. Then he cornered Arootoo! . . ." Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced...
Wilbur.--"Liliom" by Franz Molnar. Joseph Schildkraut is a captivating "roughneck" and Eva LeGallienne the pathetic housemaid who loves him through ten scenes of an unusual play. Humor, pathos, farce, and tragedy mingle...