Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author West starts off well, with wit, a nimble imagination, shrewd slants on the social roots of Hollywood's crackpottery. But well before the last scene-a world première which turns into a savage riot-his intended tragedy turns into screwball grotesque, and groggy Author West can Barely distinguish fantastic shadows from fantastic substance. At a similar stage of Tying to get Hollywood on paper, William Saroyan before him merely folded his arms, admitted with rare humility that Hollywood had given him "the smiling heart of an idiot and the good nature of a high-class phony...
...Porte, Ind. (she cut off the heads of nine Swedish swains), chased an imaginary Belle Gunness all the way to Victoria, B. C. only to learn that she was Victoria's mayor's sister-in-law. A man of action, Pegler once got bored covering a dull riot story in Rock Island, Ill., set off a brace of giant firecrackers under the mayor's window, filed an exclusive story of the "bombing" six minutes after the explosion...
...Gaya, India, when a Moslem housewife heaved a pot of cooked beef at her husband, the gobbets hit a Hindu girl passing beneath the window. Result: a street riot (beef is sacred to Hindus), six killed, 75 injured...
People are riot going...
...Whalen had other troubles. The amusement zone, badly lit and partially unpaved, produced a near riot as angry concessionaires demanded action, urged cutting the admission fee at night from 75? to 50?. Suave President Whalen promised to have the amusement area finished this week, to provide free fireworks at night...