Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The afternoon netted the Senior beggars $93.30, $34.11 of which was in pennies, a wide variety of foreign coins, several oysters still in their shells, and a miscellaneous collection of spoons and washers. Other results of the fracas are more difficult to tabulate. Several faces were cut and bleeding, while...
Feng v. Li. The attack launched by Super-Tuchun Feng, "The Christian Protector of Peking," upon General Li Ching-ling, the Civil Governor of Chihle (TiME, Dec. 21), continued and showed signs of developing into a notable engagement. Because of this fracas Peking was completely cut off from railroad communication...
Public men must be careful. If they become involved in any little fracas, or indulge in a little bit of drunken revelry, they are at once in a scandal which respectable papers, and yellow papers, and scurvy little gum-chewers' sheetlets retail to the public.
Since 1923, when he buzzed angrily out of New England, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, bumblebee of U. S. pedagogy, has circled uncertainly about over the educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for...
It was as Governor (1910-14) that he first got his great reputation. He pardoned convicted criminals by the score, 2,704 of them altogether. Finally, he resigned from office five days before the expiration of his term, in the midst of a political fracas. He bitterly opposed President Wilson...