(12-26-2014, 03:08 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Hint #1: A newspaper in this city described Robert Lincoln as follows:
"He is a harum-scarum sort of a college chap, with just a trifle of the ‘fast' in his composure, we imagine."
Was it Buffalo? I seem to remember the "harum scarum" description but not the story of the sawing.
Strangely I think that someone also described RTL's son in law Warren Beckwith (whom Robert didn't approve of by the way) as a "harum scarum fellow". What exactly did the term harum scarum mean back in those days?