Word: ruffianism
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...from Germany for her own use. "Providence will provide," she told the other captains when they began to wonder what had happened to the potatoes. But as winter wore on and Providence seemed to provide only for Nannarella, the others grew suspicious. At last, her archrival, a tall, handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told her. "If you let us have some potatoes, we'll come over to you." Soon afterward, when she saw one of the would-be defectors in deep confab with Gigi...
...isolated farmhouse, where a mother and daughter dress their wounds. One of the men, Rentaro Mikuni, longs to go back home to the girl he left behind, but he is weak-willed, and the women use him for their own purpose. The other, Toshiro Mifune, is a bullnecked, snarling ruffian who dreams of avenging the lost battle by becoming a great samurai. He soon has a chance when a rabble of bandits raid the farm. Toshiro kills the bandit chief and routs his men, then becomes a beast of the hills. He sweeps back into his native village, scattering...
...wore the wooden shoes and coarse clothing of his patients. He cursed, he got into fist fights, and he loved his gin. When he showed up to deliver a baby on his first case, he even had a little trouble being admitted to the house. How could this genial ruffian be so unprofessional and so skillful...
Father Conings dropped in on Dr. de Geus to say, "Welcome to my parish." The answer: "I don't want to have anything to do with your dear Lord." But the priest liked the little ruffian,the only other educated man on the poverty-stricken island. It was hard not to like a man who not only treated the poor for nothing but gave them food, money and fuel as well. In Robin Hood fashion, De Geus clipped his few rich patients unmercifully, but no one could accuse him of greed. Before long he and the priest were pals...
...Tales of the South Pacific, The Bridges at Toko-Ri. - ED. - † A band of pro-slavery men, headed by one Charles (Border Ruffian) Hamelton, took eleven Free State men of Linn County, Kans...