Word: riot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained therein...
...Riot galloped around the coffins. Crossbones churned the fetid air. The maitre fired his revolver. Gendarmes invaded the gloomy cave...
...shot five times through the window of the steamer's salon before the ship sailed from Port de France. The Governor was critically wounded. The would-be assassin surrendered, said he wished to kill the Governor because his own father had been killed in May in an election riot which the Governor had failed to prevent...
Much political capital was made out of the death. Socialists were accused by their opponents of murdering the young lad during recent political riot. This was denied, but nothing could prevent the Pan-Germans and Catholic bourgeoisie from making the funeral into a political demonstration against the Jews and Social Democracy...
...demise of the Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...