Word: ruffian
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...That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years...
...revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti). The heat of his singing had melted his makeup. He had taken numerous curtain calls with Scotti. People were still applauding? Doubtless they wanted the bronze-voiced Italian. He did not know that music lovers, cold-eyed elegants, smug critics alike were shouting through...
...League is necessary to police the ruffian nations," he continued, "just as we have police in our cities to protect citizens from the ruffians there. Man is a quarrelsome animal, and he will fight if offered. The League should prevent offense...
...hardly to be expected as the binders, i.e., bookmakers, felt sure that Lampy's force had several events pinched. However, in the standing broad grin, a Lampoon editor cracked a smile and lost the contest. The flying hyphen was nearly won by Miss Prints '10, of the Radcliffe Ruffian, who out of courtesy, was invited to enter. The officials won the keg-emptying contest in a walk and a short walk at that. Great credit is due the business management of the CRIMSON for supplying the daily's representatives with Frog's Verifine Hops before the hurdle holocaust. The pole...
...gallant Harvard sophomre distinguished himself recently in a way that has given him much honorable, but rather unpleasant, fame about the college. It seems that, while escorting a young lady to the theatre one night last week, a drunken ruffian attacked him on Boylston street, at the same time insulting the lady. The student, though much the smaller man, knocked the fellow down, as it happened, into a stairway which led from the street into the celler of a store. The man struck his head against a stone step, was knocked senseless, and, with the aid of a policeman...