Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used in any other disturbances that may arise in the normally peaceful town of Cambridge, but the primary purpose is to quell any uprising of the students. The whole affair started because of the water-throwing contest which went on in Plympton Street last Thursday evening. During the brawl some indignant townspeople were drenched by the torrents pouring out of the windows...
...Charlestown affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction...
...painting] represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable, drunken brawl, wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers and denizens of the red-light district. This is an unwarranted insult . . . and evidently originated in the sordid, depraved imagination of someone who has no conception of actual conditions in our service...
...went overseas with the A. E. F. In the Argonne, from which only 15 members of his company of 250 emerged alive, he was wounded in the right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term...
...rushes away. Poignantly aware at last of her own love and overcome with remorse, the Woman seeks him out, begs forgiveness. He is stony with hate: That is rather a waste of your time, And I've an appointment at nine. . . . One can't have a brawl In the hall- When she mentions suicide, the Boy senses dimly who he is, perceives that by joy and despair he has lived, accepts the second coming of Death contentedly...