Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taught Riot Tactics...
...fare of such plays as "Little Women" or old fashioned melodramas. If it's melodrama, you can always laugh at the play and hiss the villain when he comes in with the mortgage. "Little Women," despite its lack of a villain and the fact that it is no carefree riot, manages to supply an ample quantity of the picturesque. The story is a childhood favorite built around a family attired in dresses lifted from Godey's Ladies' Magazine and smothered in Victorian ideals and sentiments. There is humor, philosophy, and pathos. The combination means that superb acting and directing...
...abundant; the costumes are glamorous and scanty. Bouncing Bobby Clark is there for laughs, and Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee is there for lure. Tropical Georgia Sothern is there for the really intense customers, and fat, shameless Carrie Finnell for the really incorrigible ones. Star and Garter is a riot of off-color...
What had started the riot was a wage differential, on a U.S. defense job, between native, colored Bahamians (81? a day) and imported, white Americans ($1.00 an hour). Promised the Duke: he would return to Washington and take up the matter with the proper Anglo-American authorities, with "a strong feeling that I will not return empty-handed...
...result of the riot, said Dr. Heaton, a law was passed the following year prohibiting "the odious practice of digging up . . . dead bodies" for dissection. In its stead there sprang up a bootleg body-snatching racket run by ancient gangsters who did not hesitate to make their own corpses when none were available. It was not until 1854 that a New York law was passed granting unclaimed bodies in public morgues to medical schools. Body snatching in some other parts of the U.S. persisted until the 20th Century, by which time laws similar to New York State's were...