Word: riot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest vehicle for Richard Dix's convenience is not a racing car, but one of these electric contraptions steered by a stick. Lois Wilson at the same time deserts her usual buggy or covered wagon to run riot on Park Avenue in a very snappy roadster...
...reporter, it is reasonably clever, just reasonably. There was always the distinct impression that Mr. Grossman and Mr. Morgan were putting a lot more into their lines than was actually intended, Mr. Crosby, as far as we could see, made the part of Mrs. Smith pretty much of a riot, all on his own hook...
...performance there was an historic riot. Composer Harling was mobbed in the lobby. Journalists asserted that at least 200 men kissed and hugged him?for him, ex-director of music at West Point, a new sensation...
Thirty years ago the notorious Johnny Callahan, famed Manhattan Bowery gangster, announced that he had heeded the call of "Jerusalem Slim"* and would gamble and riot no more. Now he is the Rev. John Callahan, Superintendent of the Hadley Rescue Hall, No. 293 Bowery. At 7 p. m. every evening he admits some 175 vagrants, who are permitted to sleep on the floor of the mission during the night, but must arise and depart at 5 a. m. lest they slumber while they might be looking for work...
...Princeton, Lowell of Harvard, Angell of Yale, Farrand of Cornell, Hadley of Washington, Wilbur of California, Scott of Northwestern, Kinley of Illinois, Brooks of Missouri, Chase of North Carolina,† sat in the stands and saw Yale, amazingly rejuvenated, break a 7-7 tie in the last period and riot furiously across the goalline of an overtrained and suddenly despairing Army eleven. Score: Yale 28, Army...