Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hawker had set up his stand in Chicago's Italian quarter where thousands of agitated people were milling about in the street. Small boys pelted the crowd with rocks. A Negro knifed an Italian. Women were fainting. Already the riot squads were on their way, and perspiring traffic cops were trying to reroute automobiles into side streets. "Madre di Dio!" breathed the Italian women, crossing themselves. "Santissima Maria, what a miracle has come...
...Crown Prince Umberto. Actually he was a grey-haired Italian banker, Signor Nardi Beltrami. The woman soon became Cinemactress Jeannette MacDonald-actually she was the banker's mistress, one Signorina Lodigiani. When banker & mistress recovered sufficiently to slip away to parts unknown, journalistic rumor ran riot, especially in France. The story now was, is, that Jeannette MacDonald was injured not in an auto accident but by Crown Princess Maria Jose. In French papers the ideal set for such jealous pistol work is, a hotel bedroom on the glamorous Riviera...
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde set off a ten-minute riot of applause, when, coiling his long, lanky legs around the microphone stand, he declared: "Do you know what a 'yes but' man is? He's the fellow who says 'Yeah, the program's all right but-,' 'Sure, the President's O.K. but-.' We've got several of those fellows in the party and before you go home I wish you'd stop in at the War Department and get an armful of polo mallets. Then, whenever...
...test case the wedding was a success. There was no riot. Said the bride, leaning on Moses Cohen's arm, "We are both descendants of Jewish families who were expelled from Spain in the time of Queen Isabella...
...Kassel a policeman was killed and a 90-year-old shoemaker shot dead as he watched the riot from his window. In Hamburg five people were wounded. In Bremen rioters stoned policemen, belabored them with short lengths of drainpipe. In Mühlheim six Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists...