Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food, dug deep in his own pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington and the country a remarkable demonstration of mob management without benefit of tear gas, riot club or machine...
Commented the superpatriotic Chicago Tribune: "They will be a disturbance wherever they go if not a potential danger. . . . The bummers were said to be in good humor, but there was the nucleus of a destructive mob. ... If this is a lark, what's a riot...
...hour ducking missiles and wringing their hands. Safe in their odds of 3 to 1, the Fascists soon drove the last Communist from the Chamber, spent the next half-hour triumphantly roaring old war songs. Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, now a Fascist Deputy, placidly watched the riot, prudently threw no inkwells...
...result of the investigation carried on by University officials during the last few weeks, five of the eight students, who a week ago had their cases disposed of at the third district court in East Cambridge, were placed on probation for participating in the riot on April...
...first flights of fancy and treated the defendants with sensible geniality. The University acted properly in putting on probation men, who continued to cause disturbance after they were warned by officials. Now that legal sanction has been given the settlement of the case, the memory of the Great Harvard Riot of 1932 may fade with the memory of a beautiful Spring...