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...moment of silence--then the crowd realized what this misshapen form had done. The fist marshall of the class jumped forward, Come on now, fellows, a long cheer for Hollisheimer...
Laiborite Thomas Griffiths of Pontypool (shaking his fist at the Ministerial Bench): "You wasters! . . . You blackguards! . . . You rotters! . . . You thieves! . . . Your kind put my father in jail during the big strike...
They started a fight. One Schoroni of Uruguay socked Jock McArthur of Boston with his fist. Other Uruguayans used their feet. Curses ensued. One-third of the 7,000 spectators swarmed on the field. Two women were knocked down, trampled upon. The police quelled the riot after two Boston players had been kicked in the groin and carried off the field unconscious...
...Mobile seethed in righteous wrath. In homes, in clubs, on streets, audible threats of tar-barrels, feathers, the noose rose out of mutterings and fist-shakings. One evening last week warnings from county officials came to Mr. Darrow, plain-clothes men grouped themselves about his door; on the next morning he fled on the noon train to Chattanooga throwing a parting word of denial of what the Klan said he said, planned to return North...
...German field guns rumbled and infantry tramped through Bertry Village, watched from behind drawn shutters by Mme. Belmont-Gobert and many another. Soon a fist knocked at her door, and 16 German soldiers were billeted in her house. Only the living-room was left to Mme. Belmont-Gobert. Then, after the soldiers had clumped out to forage for dinner, a light tap came at her back door. With fearful, hungry eyes, a British trooper, Patrick Fowler, asked Mme. Belmont-Gobert to hide and succor...