Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the women, children, and persons obviously unconnected with the "riot" were released from the battle-scarred car, and the train proceeded to the car-barn, where reserves from the Brattle Square Station were ready to escort the Harvard students to headquarters...
Edoardo Talamo, Roman engineer, had gotten some model tenements built. Families living in them were better housed than most of the city's poor families, but during the day, while the adults were at work, urchins reveled in the courtyards, ran riot in the long halls. Signor Talamo set aside playrooms for the children, urged Dottoressa Montessori to take them in hand. Thus was founded the first Casa del Bambini. Such establishments, subsequently organized in the U. S. and England, came to be known as "Children's Houses...
...interest which European students manifest in affairs of state evidently comes from their assumption that it is their unalterable right to do so. At any rate the latest riot affords an interesting contrast to the manner and subject of student riots in America. The undergraduates of Spain engage in fisticuffs with the officers of the same army which ended Rivera's dictatorship because they are delighted in the return of Monarchy. The younger generation in the United States confines its outbursts mostly to matters academic which have aroused their wrath. Be it faculty infringement on their privileges, the removal...
...were fighting desperately for their very existence; no one knew who would rule China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried by their own consular courts...