Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the skirmish was the clerk of the court. Carefully balancing a heavy glass inkwell, he watched for an opportunity, let fly. It caught Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera under the temple, stopped the riot. Thirty-seven Fascists in the courtroom were arrested. Fascist Primo de Rivera was hurried to a clinic to have his head patched, then put back in his cell to cool off for five months more...
...Boston 60 Harvard boys marched in to his lecture dressed in caricature esthetic attire; Oscar, forewarned, had the laugh on them by appearing in fairly conventional evening dress. In New Haven, Yale copy-catted to no effect. But in Rochester, N. Y. the undergraduates staged a real riot. Chicago was insulted when Oscar made withering remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter...
...best organized riot in the history of all riots failed to materialize last night after nearly one thousand men had milled into Massachusetts Avenue out of the Yard and Houses...
...rainbow with satisfying grace. We liked the story; we have for years. A young dancing master (Charles Collins) is shanghaied to California, where he is soon waltzing his way to freedom and young love's triumph with Steffi Duna, the local senorita No. 1. In spite of the riot of color and considerable good dancing, the absence of any musical standouts relegates the film to second class.E...
...each other to see who will have nerve enough to follow the commander forward, stumble to their feet, start to run and, the lust and excitement of combat suddenly on them, break into that wild monotone which, in civil life, is heard only in the frenzy of a prison riot...