rowdyism

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The Eagle was of the opinion that architecture could influence behavior, noting in 1893 that there was “much less rowdyism and general law breaking in the 18th Precinct than a few years ago.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2011

The Way of a Transgressor, with its tone of amiable rowdyism, will remind readers of Bruce Lockhart's British Agent.

From Time Magazine Archive

A troublesome oddity is that although all of this fine rowdyism is described from the viewpoint of the twelve-year-old Albert, a mist of ruefulness and loss drifts across the narrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though Mr. Macdonald's inability to suppress Laborite rowdyism last week somewhat damped his prestige, he appears to remain en rapport with all but the most radical Laborites.

From Time Magazine Archive

I thought that Whitechapel, on Saturday night, was beyond competition as a scene of rowdyism.

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max