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...that, more than 100 Red Deputies and their Nenni Socialist allies rushed into the well of the Chamber to start a brawl. Togni got little help from his fellow Demo-Christians, who stayed in their seats. But neo-Fascists and Monarchists met the Reds with swinging fists. Six Deputies, all right-wingers, had to be treated at the Chamber's first-aid station...
...brawl culminated an exchange of insults which began inside the restaurant when an undergraduate accidentally jostled a town boy. The Cambridge boys followed the students outside and assaulted them on the sidewalk in front of the building...
Welterweight (5 ft. 4 in., 140 Ibs.) Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 86, came out on the wrong end of an impromptu brawl with a heavyweight visitor to his Manhattan office. The intruder: his son Berwyn, 30, a physically cultured brute (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) who blamed his father for causing him to lose his job as a dancing instructor. The elder Macfadden's version: "He came into my office with blood in his eye, and . . . before I knew what was happening, he slapped my face and hit me." Berwyn's story: "He tried to shoot...
Refusal to Appear. The take-off had taken a long time in coming-since June, in fact, when Yoshida was originally scheduled to depart but was held back by a rousing brawl in the quaintly violent Japanese Diet. The quarrel was still on last week, much of it over Premier Yoshida, his independent and often highhanded conduct, his refusal to appear before a committee investigating reports of large-scale bribery involving Yoshida's administration and shipping interests. Some of his opponents paraded the streets and demonstrated before the Premier's house to prevent his departure, but Yoshida felt...
Home Is the Hero (by Walter Macken) treats of an Irish household, and of the father's return to it after five years in prison for killing a man in a brawl. Paddo O'Reilly returns home an even worse bully than he went away: he has a new sense of guilt that makes him flagellate others instead of himself, and an old will to dominate that soon has him trying to upset everyone's plans and destroy everyone's happiness. Only at the end does Paddo-or rather, Playwright Macken-relent: in a most ignominious...