Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morrow, "debate" of the amnesty bill was continued. This time, a riot broke out in the Left benches. Socialist accused Communist of having "sold France." For inexplicable reasons the Communists objected to the accusation and, in the twinkling of an eye, the members of the two Parties were either yelling their heads off or doing their best to knock one another...
From now on, the story runs riot. The War ends, Peter returns home, his father relents, he marries Georgina amid a swirl of roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...
...play on the mating of blacks and whites (TIME, March 17) lived up to expectations by turning into a news event. It had been preceded by a storm of protest from various sections of the metropolis and the U. S. at large, though nothing like a race riot seemed likely. At the first performance, the Provincetown Theatre group announced that Mayor Hylan had refused to sanction the appearance of black and white children in the first scene of the play, designed to show that with children there is no color line...
...true, however, that in recent years the "activities and powers of the Federal bureaus" have increased; yet it is obvious that more regulation by the government has been made necessary by the flagrant abuses which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that...
Enthusiasm ran riot throughout the Senior dormitories last night, and, according to another report, in that mecca of wearied book-worms, Revere Beach, Up to a late hour, however, no casualties had been reported and it inferred that Seniors will indulge in a well-earned sleep of long duration...