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Word: rioted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respectable dramatic column to worry about. Osgood Perkins, who scored so high as the very wisecracker in Loose Ankles, now takes over the perturbations of Professor Paolina with equal success. Carlotta Irwin, the harassed Mrs. Petella, is to laugh (heartily). In fact, the whole show is a riot far more entertaining than contemporary night clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Chambre- ¶Was the scene of a typically exuberant riot amid which books and inkwells flew when Deputy Charles Hueber from Alsace-Lorraine attempted to speak for the first time in two years in the only language he can speak, and was howled down by the Communists because his "Alsatian" sounds like "German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

After two passes that shot like lances through the gathering dusk, it was the good right foot of Wadsworth, substitute back, which offset the wonder pass from Chauncey to Saltonstall that sent Harvard momentarily into the lead and the Crimson stands into a riot of joy. Previously, it had been a mighty punt by Noble that put the Bulldog on the way to its first score, and in the closing minutes Captain Bunnell tore away the last shred of Crimson hopes with his great 40-yard field goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON DEFENSE FAILS AS YALE CAPITALIZES BREAKS | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...when a college student is a part of a mob after a pep meeting, one cannot expect reason. Quite plainly there is one logical method of riot and raid prevention; eliminate the mob. The Michigan Daily

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michigan Sanity | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

...slow Persian craftsmen, who made the rug out of silk threads, wove into it animals, riders, flowers. Horsemen move to and fro, pursuing lions, antelopes, ibexes, boars, hares, foxes, jackals and other beasts; many flowers, some western, some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rug | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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