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The irreverent had nicknamed this the "yap-wagon"; and declared that the company maintained a fake "opium-joint" in Chinatown, and a fake "dive" in the Bowery, and hired tough-looking individuals to sit and be stared at by credulous excursionists from Oklahoma and Kalamazoo.
Whence this irruption of strange, uncouth creatures a jail-bird in a laborer's garb, and the profane old hermit, whom the boys had nicknamed "Jerry Growler," and who had not been seen in church for years. Mrs. Arnot, followed by many eyes, passed quietly up to her pew, and bowed her head in prayer. Prayer!
Virgin of the Sagrario! A Luna of the Holy Metropolitan Church lowering himself to be a bull-fighter! The canons did laugh, and even the Lord Cardinal himself, as I have been told, when they heard about the affair! A witty beneficiary has since nicknamed him the 'Tato, and so they all call him now in the Cathedral. So you see, brother, how much respect this rascal pays to his family."
Before long, rioters were breaking into stores and carrying off everything from beer to television sets and clothing. Breaking and looting was shortly followed by burning. The center of the action was soon nicknamed "Charcoal Alley." After a couple of days when the riot continued to grow, Los Angeles officials began to consider calling in the National Guard.
He resembles one of the great left-handed pitchers of all time: Rube Waddell. "And from that day on, they nicknamed me 'Rube. "I had a wonderful season that year with Indianapolis. I pitched forty-seven complete games, won twenty-eight of them, led the league in most strikeouts, least hits, most innings pitched, and everything.
"Do you remember how they used to tease you? You were nicknamed Herostratus because you burned a hole in a schoolbook with a cigarette, and I was nicknamed Ephialtes because I was fond of telling tales. Ho ho! . . . we were children! . . . Don't be shy, Nafanya. Go nearer to him. And this is my wife, her maiden name was Vantsenbach, of the Lutheran persuasion. . . ."
We saw him to be a very long-legged, raggedy youth whom we had nicknamed the Marabout because of his exceedingly long, lean legs, the fact that his breeches were white, short and baggy, and because he kept his entire head shaved close. He called himself Fundi, which means The Expert, a sufficient indication of his confidence in himself.
This precocious passion led me to neglect my studies and instead to compose poems, which indeed were of no high promise, if judged by the following verse: 'O Inca! O roi infortune, commencing an epopee on the Incas. The line became only too celebrated among my companions, and I was derisively nicknamed the poet.
Thereupon several knights were made; and the Count of Hainault himself made fourteen, who were thenceforth nicknamed Knights of the Hare." Whatever his motive may have been, Philip did not attack; and Edward promptly began a retreat. They both dismissed their allies; and during the early days of November Philip fell back upon St.
Orme was a cripple, and spent every summer regularly upon the river with his old manservant, nicknamed "the Badger." "Oh, he is quite impossible!" Hilary declared. "Let's talk of something else!" "But he means to keep you to your word, eh?" her brother persisted. "How will you get out of it?" Hilary's face flushed more deeply, and she bit her lip. "There won't be any getting out of it.
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