Word: rowdyisms
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Coats & Ties. To keep his ballrooms free of rowdyism, Bill Karzas provides only "sweet" music, bans jitterbugging. He sells liquor, but he pushes orangeade and Coke harder. Men must wear coats and ties; for those who come without them, Karzas keeps a supply on hand. Girls wearing slacks and sweaters are not allowed...
...ugly fact was that the behavior of many G.I.s in Europe was disgraceful. It was not just that there were rights in the Place Pigalle (which G.I.s call "Pig Alley") and fights on the waterfront of Le Havre. It was not just holdups here and drunkenness and rowdyism there...
...kids have learned who is boss"; "the better patrons" come now because they hear the Mission "is properly operated"; for a year there has been no serious ruction. "Admittedly," writes Manager Watson, "it is a rare way to run a theater, but we have reduced our vandalism and rowdyism...
...scenes ever shown on the screen. As Gentleman Jim Corbett, the San Francisco bank clerk who introduced footwork and Shakespeare to the ring and knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 immortal rounds, Errol Flynn flashes the fanciest left Hollywood has produced. Warners has surrounded him with the hilarious rowdyism of the prizefighting game in the '903, including a superb performance by Ward Bond as the great John L. himself...
...death at the moment of victory. Others, in the mood of another great struggle for U.S. survival, will read it for its swarming picture of a people's energies, creating out of next to nothing the greatest armies and armaments the world had seen, bursting into rowdyism, drinking, drabbing, killing, doggedly enduring continual defeat until the strength had been built up for ultimate victory, never quite overcoming, but somehow bypassing at last their own vast corruption, treason, bureaucracy, in efficiency, despair...