Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
...Crimes for which the penal code inflicts life imprisonment, namely: high treason, incendiarism, causing explosions or floods and damaging railway lines shall be punishable by death. Similarly capital punishment may be inflicted in a case of lesser treason, for inciting to riot and committing acts of violence in connection therewith...
...good citizens in Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined that there was trouble in Altona. Five minutes later armored cars roared past in the riot cars' wake. Waiters, no longer weary, knew there was real trouble in Altona...
Thus the B. E. F. took No Man's Land and the Capitol steps, only to be defeated and driven back, not by police clubs and riot guns, but by the adjournment of a determined Congress. Gradually the veterans drifted back to the Anacostia mudflats. Leader Robertson called off his picket line. To continue their demonstration 60 of his men followed a lone flag-bearer down to the White House. Its iron gates were slammed shut. Police reserves trotted up. The demonstrations were forced off Pennsylvania Avenue, across Lafayette Park. A handful were arrested, all traffic was diverted. The White...
...human beings sick or well. Even Laure, his peasant-girl wife, finds him unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him. When, over the extravagant construction of a new wing to the clinic, she reads him the riot act, he turns away in scorn, falls off the balcony to the cement ground floor...