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Consider the scene at The Otherside one recent Friday night: the restaurant’s usual throng burst into a roar when two of the scruffiest, hipster-iest men in the establishment began flinging small objects off a balcony into the crowd below. The objects, it turned out, were decks of cards and miniature palm-sized helmets—just large enough for a hipster to keep a finger or two safe while zooming around Boston on a bike without breaks...

Author: By JONATHAN B. STEINMAN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geek-Chic | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...requirement that all men wear a tie to dinner was always one of Brody's favorites. He likes to remember all the times men came into the dining room "in the scruffiest outfits imaginable...but wearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apologetic Leftists and Cambridge Slush | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...hour and 13 minutes the converted Russian tuna boat chased one of the mightiest ships of the Seventh Fleet; in turn, it was chased by one of the scruffiest vessels in the U.S. Navy. The U.S.S. Conserver is a rust-pitted, rickety tug, built in 1945 and capable of a scant 14 knots ("with plenty of wind and a little bit of lying"). Nonetheless, it managed to close on the trawler's starboard side and station itself between the Russian and the carrier, thus averting, if not a collision, then at least an embarrassing change of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Skunk Watchers | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Cadillacs has given way to a pair of Chrysler New Yorkers, and with a deftly democratic touch, Feisal always sits up front next to the driver. To get just as close to the people, Feisal holds a daily majlis (assembly) and invites everyone-from the richest merchant to the scruffiest Bedouin-to come and get his gripes off his chest. "We believe," says Feisal, "that we represent democracy in its highest form, though its structure may be alien to Western ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Revolution from the Throne | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest, scruffiest lot of fighters our men ever came across, compared with whom the Germans were gentlemen." The delegation was "impressed with the universal opinion of these British troops and of many others whom we consulted that, had they not been ordered into action against ELAS, there would have been wholesale massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report on Revolt | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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