Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx, N. Y., Helen Vatale Cerrulo quarreled with her 21-year-old husband Mike, went home to her mother. Few hours later, armed with baseball bats and pick handles, a dozen Cerrulos & friends met a dozen Vatales & friends on a vacant lot. When riot squads cleared the battlefield one Vatale henchman lay still with a fractured skull, another lay dead...
Clearly Minister Leygues, after all only a landlubber, had let his imagination run riot. When Germany startled the world with her "pocket battleships," none of which mounts more than an 11-in. gun (TIME, June 1, 1931). France retorted by laying down the "super-cruiser" Dunkerque which is expected to take the line next year. Mounting 13.2-in. guns and with a speed several knots faster than Germany's "pocket battleships," the Dunkerque is perhaps the most efficient and potentially destructive war boat in the world. France also possesses a high proportion of new submarines and superspeed destroyers...
Other loafers came running, gaped, pointed, shouted, and threatened to burn the church down. Police were called, then Republican Guards and the Fire Department before the riot ended and the church was saved. Perspiring police explained that that scrawl had been on the church for 20 years, was not supposed to be King Alfonso at all but the greatest bullfighter of modern times, swarthy, limping Juan Vincente Belmonte, now retired...
...thrown out of their chairs. No other eminent scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacobsohn, Indo-Germanic philologist at Marburg, who threw himself under a train. But many a Jew in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot...
...worth trying. While the Peten was still at sea he suddenly signed orders liberating some 300 political prisoners. At the same time walls and fences broke out in a rash of red-lettered posters: OPPOSE AMERICAN INTERVENTION. To the delight of U. S. correspondents, plans for a magnificent "Red Riot" leaked out three days too soon. According to the scheme Dictator Machado's ever useful Porra (strongarm squad) was to equip a mob of hoodlums with sticks, red flags, Communist banners. Just as the Peten was warping in to its berth the "Communists" would assemble at the quayside with...