Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Harvard riot which was reported by Moscow newspapers as caused by hunger for food, and which the San Francisco newspapers attributed to hunger for companionship of Radcliffe belles was brought to a splendid anti-climax in court yesterday morning. Policemen under oath were a bit more honest than the press in admitting that Harvard students had been "grabbed at random" and arrested "without any idea of what they might have been guilty...
...arrests, following the "riot" which has been outrageously exaggerated were a startling surprise to the participators who witnessed an hitherto peaceful band of cops metamorphosed into almost brutal "arrest-hunters." But aside from this, the point that should be emphasized is the attitude of the immigration authorities toward the much mistreated Edith Berkman. Mrs. Tillinghast and Sub-Commissioner F. S. Abercrombie have tried to suppress knowledge of the fact that those in no way connected with Communist or Socialist organizations are active in Miss Berkman's case and they have played the whole affair up as a "Red Riot...
Migrating monkeys swarmed screeching into the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last week, disturbed the repose of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon, made more trouble for the police than do St. Gandhi's non-violent Nationalists. Treating the monkeys exactly like Gandhites, police riot squads drove them out of town with lathis (long staves) every day. But every night the monkeys crept back to plague New Delhi, caused the United Press to report that "monkeys dominated the city...
...follows could only happen in Russian novels of the great tradition. Among confused but brilliant conversations the story of the factory's building winds its way. The expropriated peasants protest; hairy saints are rumored to have come from the mossy woods to warn against the new regime; the workers riot; everybody talks at brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness...
...facts" on which the whole editorial rests; headlines in the New York Herald-Tribune for Monday morning read "May Day Mob Beats Official At Melbourne; Polish Police Fire on 700; Tokio Seizes 1200 Reds; Spain Arrests Scores; Racial Strife In Africa; 80 Faint in Berlin Arena; Hyde Park Has Riot," while a front page story calls the New York May Day parade "the biggest communist turnout this city has seen." Your editor must evidently have spent the day in the poetry room of Widener, or perhaps talking with Professor Carver...