Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When you were 10-12 years of age were you the goat for your playmates? In playing war would they force you to fight on the unpopular side...
When the Senate convenes in December, this appointment must be resubmitted. That there will be a dramatic fight is improbable. First, Mr. Woodlock, a Democrat, cannot be rejected unless all Democratic Senators, both North and South, leagued with all Insurgents, vote against him. Second, there is likely to be another vacancy in the nine-chaired table, to which Mr. Coolidge will appoint a Southerner, thus removing the sting from their objections...
...Communists yelled: "Long live Communism!" The Fascisti smiled, cheered and clapped .the appreciative Mussolini. Once again rang out the provocative cry: "Long live Communism!" A Fascist became unnerved, sprang into the midst of the 15 Communist Deputies, lashing out with both fists. It was the signal for a free fight and the Chamber became a mad mass of sprawling men, jumbled arms and legs...
...himself of a speech in Croatian. Serbian howls rent the Chamber. He declared that Deputies sat in the Chamber who had been elected by the Government and not by the people-but he got no farther. An irate Government Deputy hit him on the head and began a fist fight of prolonged duration which was finally stopped by the intervention of gendarmes...
...these fights, which resulted in the departure of the Sophomore class, is commemorated in a long satiric poem, "The Rebelliad", much admired in its day. The incident started with a food fight between the Freshmen and the Sophomores at Sunday evening Commons...