Word: ruffianism
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...literary veins more satisfying. Author Bronson's "hero" is apparently an amalgam of the potentialities of different young men he knew at Yale, melted down into a character as thoroughly "American" as Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat. Jonathan ("Johnny," "O. K.") Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins and football lines while not indulging his other animalisms too much to spoil the main chance, gets him into a good college, into Wall Street, big money, a sound marriage. A mixup with a girl to whom he turns...
...hilarious impudence they flapped in places where they were not wanted. Badges were torn from the imposing fronts of the city fathers; and stern-faced color guards, strong to face the wind, realized that whichever way they turned they had better have turned some other way. Nor did the ruffian Skiron spare the skirts of sisters and sweethearts. Graceful draperies sprang into life as parachutes, revealing much not usually disclosed to the eye of man. But the fog was conquered...
...discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would...
...huge terra cotta New Colonial Hotel ($16 to $44 per day) was opening its winter season. On the site of the elegant New Colonial once stood old Fort Nassau where the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious whiskers in fine points, braided them with gay ribbons in peace, with smouldering slow matches in war. Bootleggers load their ships at Nassau today. Not far from the New Colonial Hotel is the Bahamian Club, a discreet drinking, gambling resort that used to be operated...
...must keep quiet and accept disorder and window breaking, then he may as well know-and this is no mere phrase-that I take an oath that physical power will not be only on the side of the others. Whoever imagines he can attack republican institutions will learn that ruffians must be dealt with by ruffian methods...