Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illness, strike, riot, civil commotion or act of God, not even the profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...
...maid in town had her window very near by. Her complaints merely attracted more unseemly goings-on than ever. A merciless churchgoer, she embroiled the gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken zeal, quartered troops on Clochemerle and precipitated a real riot; the old maid went frankly, starkly crazy. Even then there was no telling what might...
Although Spring has not yet arrived in her full bloom and freshness, and it is still a bit chilly to stage a first-class riot, it may be safely said that the strength-sapping improvements of our modern mechanized civilization have rendered the Class of 1940 effete and sissified. Radcliffe, now freed from the menace of an annual mob invasion, has become contemptuous of the Harvard man's ability to set out on masse for Garden Street and show that he is capable of accomplishing great things...
Yardlings, the stigma of weakness is upon you! It is up to you to show the powers that be that you are not a craven, crawling, spinc less, lot and that true to Harvard tradition you can riot with the best of them Are you Men or Mice...
Three hundred Freshmen ran aimlessly around the Yard last night, emitting occasional shrill "Rineharts", as a hastily planned riot degenerated into a clumsy game of ring around the rosy...