Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrought by members of the Bullingdon Club in their "exuberance . . . after dinner . . . Saturday night". Misery loves company, and it should be balm to bruised spirits to know that the confreres of the Prince of Wales, who was a member of the Club in college days, can enjoy a friendly riot when entertainment lags...
...connection with the Oxford unpleasantness, we cannot but admire the reasonable methods with which the English always seem to deal with unusual situations. The recent "riot" at Oxford was evidently animated, yet it appears to have been handled in a way that robbed it of real seriousness and made it a matter for ridicule rather than scandal. Obviously they find it both expedient and profitable to make the best of a bad situation instead of making the worst of a harmless...
Three fist fights in three days in congress and a near riot in the Massachusetts State House--such is this week's legislative record to date. These may merely be symptoms of red-blooded American conviction; if so, we could wish there were more blue blood in politics. Professional baseball and hockey players are fined or ejected from the game for such an exhibition as Senators Glass and Wheeler put on last Saturday. But both senators hold their seats unmolested...
...hearing tomorrow, it is to be hoped, will be the final episode so far as the undergraduate body is concerned, of the so-called riot last Friday night...
Patrolman Prior, coming to Murphy's aid, was jostled by the crowd, and his hat knocked off, Seeing all the signs of a riot in this act, Prior drew his gun, and holding the students at bay, backed to the signal box on the square, and turned in a call for assistance...