Word: ruffianism
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Beer & Free Lunch. Hinky Dink and his lifelong partner, Bathhouse John Coughlin, had set out to rule these rich and raffish stews of the new metropolis. Bathhouse John, once a rubber in a Turkish oath, was the front man. He was a huge, bumbiing. handsome ruffian, full of pomp, speech and warm red blood. Tight-lipped Hinky Dink was the boss. They were elected aldermen; together they controlled the vote, became loved, feared, respected...
Shall . . . hireling hosts, a ruffian band...
When father Donadieu began to suspect his daughter's romance, he roared: "If that young ruffian has the nerve to set foot in this house . .I'll throw him out head foremost." Soon after, old Donadieu's water-logged corpse was found under a pier. The villagers wondered: did he fall or was he pushed? Old man Donadieu is merely the first ill-fated character in Author Simenon's latest book - which traces the decline and fall of the bereft Donadieu family through 371 hard-breathing pages. By the time Author Simenon dusts his hands...
...nations, concludes Author Stewart, can boast a nomenclature "so definitely linked with actual men and events," or composed to such an extent by "all classes from border ruffian to Boston Brahmin." Pastoral simplicities like Seldom Seen, Possum Glory, Chicken Bristle, Hog Eye, Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything...
Either the College was puritanical in those days or the local cafeterias were a far cry from the genteel Georgian and Hayes-Bick. Earlier College laws would indicate the former to be the case. For example, in 1655 students were required to"... weare modest and sober habit without strange, ruffian-like, or new-angled fashions, without lavish dresse for any excesses of aparal whatever," and they could not ".... weare long haire, locks or foretopps ..." nor indulge in the "... curling, crisping, parting or powdering their haire...