Word: affrays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sacked and burned by fleet-riding Arabs was the ancient town of Safed, for centuries a seat of mystical Jewish learning. The Moslem version of the affray could not be learned, but Jews told of fleeing headlong through the streets, dodging into houses, making what resistance they could while the Arabs battered down doors, put bullets indiscriminately among the Jews and ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have...
...their way out through the crowd. A woman called Mr. Walmsley a dirty name. A man clouted him in the stomach. He hit back. A free-for-all fight started. One councilman was knocked almost unconscious by a blow on the neck. The crowd became a mob. Into the affray waded Police Captain Henry Melson, unpopular with the strikers for his "rough stuff." Up went the cry: "Get Melson!'' He was "gotten"- crushed to the floor, kicked, cuffed, pounded, pummeled. He drew his gun, fired shots along the floor, hit two legs...
Great was the agitation in Washington over this affray. Mr. Lowman saw in it a direct challenge to the U. S. Government. Secretary of State Stimson called for a complete report from the Treasury Department, intimated that it might be made the subject of diplomatic representations to Canada. In it some officials thought they had a reverse of the I'm Alone case, talked of asking extradition of the criminals who had "attempted to murder" U. S. officers...
Subsequently, the dwelling-place became the head-quarters for General Israel Putnam, the Commissary officer of the Revolutionary army. Putnam and his adjutants were quartered here until the battle of Bunker Hill, in which all of them participated. After the Boston affray, the American troops and General Putnam retired from Cambridge, leaving the Hicks house to remain open for civilian occupants the rest of its days...
...third, counted for the most part after long zigzag sprints down the ice. Passing fell into disuse as it became evident that any individual might break away on his own account. Wetmore, Holbrook, and F. R. G. Giddens '29 shone most brilliantly in the latter part of the affray...