Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college student's father gloomed in Chicago last week. He was James J. Harrington, rich real estate broker. His son James J. Jr., 20, had been suspended from Northwestern University as a ringleader in a "Hobo Day" riot. Said Father Harrington: "If Jack is out of school, as he seems to be, he will have to go to work. He can stay at home if he wants to. but he'll have to pay board. I'm through supporting him." A $3000 automobile he had given his son was to be sold. Jack, said he, had been a fine...
...words too precious for its taste. Then there in this much-deplored age of sensation, which gives to the gentler diction of Charles Lamb's day something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...
...shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot gun in his mouth and blown out his brains...
While Storrs snored in his big bed in Government House, in the inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...
...Manchester an angry mob, tired of hurling rocks, took a leaf from the Book of Gandhi. Having rioted for the better part of an hour they squatted in the road, blocked traffic. Unlike orthodox Hindu passive resisters they were not trained to withstand baton blows. After one police charge, Manchester's unemployed began to riot again...