Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the arrest of Weisbord last week, and of one of the several New York lawyers who came out to test the validity of the riot act, it seems as though these authorities had about reached the end of their rope...
...Thomas, standing on property owned by the League for Industrial Democracy, of which he is a director, was exhorting a small and peaceful group of strikers to refrain from violence, when police, armed with riot guns, closed in upon the scene and dramatically arrested the speaker. The gathering dispersed quietly in spite of some rough usage by the police. Later responsible officials at the court house refused to reveal to Mr. Thomas' lawyers that he had been arrested and imprisoned under $10,000 bail...
...week. Throughout the strike, police have broken up peaceful meetings with sawed off shotguns, descended upon children's parades with clubs generally made every effort to incite the strikers to violent action. Of course, such melodramatic tactics have defeated their own ends. The strikers have refused to riot and every fresh outrage has gained them scores of sympathizers. For the detached mind there is even an element of humor in the picture painted of Garfield in metropolitan newspapers yesterday, when scores of deputy sheriffs patrolled the empty streets armed to the teeth seeking trouble while the workers watched behind closed...
Harvard Students Caused Riot...
...from appeasing the wrath of the Harvard undergraduates, these and other advance notices about the play only stired them up the more. The story of the riot and subsequent disturbance in Boston is famous in Harvard history...