Word: rowdyish
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...naval, written anonymously in 1876 and titled "Student Life at Harvard," described the aspect of these gladiators flowers. As time passed, these contents "The Class, before so gentlemanly in appearance, stood transformed into a rabble of rowdyish and seedy-looking characters." Lowell agreed with this descriptive, remarking that "the Senior class are distinguished by the various shapes of eccentric rim displayed in their hats...
Robert Taylor she "can't see for dust." Of the relative merits of Boston and New Haven audiences she said, "I love them all; they all pay $3.30." Miss Wing thought that New Haven audiences were "rather rowdyish and full of stage-door Johnnies...
Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...
...must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing it would be to see a foot ball game conducted on the principle of the modern nurses! The players should be neatly attired (because the present costume is "rowdyish"). No ball more deadly than a pig's bladder should be allowed. Player number one bows politely to the others and says, "Please pass me the ball." When he gets it in his gloved hands, all other players retire to a safe distance, and after asking permission of the referee...
...propounds the following conundrum: "What is the matter with the college boys? They act as though they were inspired. Princeton students have been on trial for misdemeanors; Cornell sophomores have been arrested for abducting freshmen, and Williams College students have made the services of the police necessary by very rowdyish demonstrations at North Adams. We hope the evil of "crankism" will not extend to our higher institutions of learning. It is better to be aesthetic...