Half a dozen Rowdies had got hold of a girl; I don't know what she had done-maybe her skirts were too short, or maybe she had been saucy to one of the gang; anyhow, they were tearing her clothes to shreds, and having done this gaily, they took her on their shoulders, and ran her out to the wagon, and tossed her up beside the Red Prophet.
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
I don't think the pain of my head and face had anything to do with it, I think it was rage and humiliation; my sense of outrage, that I, who had helped to win a war, should have been made to run from a gang of cowardly Rowdies.
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
Yet they would have accomplished nothing had it not been for the frauds and outrages perpetrated by the gangs of native and foreign-born ruffians in the great cities, under the leadership of such brutal Rowdies as Isaiah Rynders.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt