Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strategically choosing St. Patrick's Day when the greater number of Boston's finest will be concentrated in South Boston, these students, it is said, will make a determined effort to repeat the riot at Charlestown...
...quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble. Unable to subsist as a human being on her meagre wages, Sally Hardcastle (Wendy Hiller) snatches a few rewarding moment; out on a Lancashire heath with an agitato named Larry (Brandon Peters). When Larry is killed in an unemployed riot, Salb makes her final adjustment to a pitiless environment by becoming the "housekeeper" of a paunchy bookmaker named Sam Grundy. In the season's most eloquent tagline, Henry Hardcastle then sums up the hopelessness of the whole situation: "I've done me best, haven...
...escape from the woman's prison is perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment in the whole picture. It takes place during a scream-jag riot fomented by a rat released from its cage, which is a device we should not have thought of ourselves. Instead of jumping into the ocean, as most escape heroines do, Jean Harlow crawls with her two companions through a drainage pipe. And when one of them is shot by a guard, she does not murmur with her last breath, "Good luck, Jean." "Riffraff" is worthy of the highest compliment a critic can give...
...hours later the two assassins lay riddled with bullets on the floor in a room in San Juan police headquarters. The police story: The two Nationalists, being questioned, suddenly leaped to seize riot guns which were exposed on a rack in an open closet. The police prevented them...
Scolding Yale alumni for the goal post riot which followed the last Yale-Princeton football game, Yale's President James Rowland Angell declaimed: "There will be no general, much less complete, cure until our American college groups, both graduate and undergraduate, come to realize that bad manners and poor sportsmanship are the marks of the mucker. . .." Honest President Angell stopped, reflected. "I have a piece of a goal post myself," he confessed, then quickly weaseled: "It was presented to me, however...