Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unidentified hisser in the audience, failing to get much support in his efforts, following the meeting telephoned Boston newspapers in the guise of John S. Stillman '40, H. S. U. President. He told them that an invasion of fascists had started a small riot, and that one of the disturbers had succeeded in blacking Mumford's eye. He didn't say which...
Said Novelist Forem of this first big anti-Semitic riot in the New World: "It was a regular pogrom. I could feel it in the air. ... I think a big change has come over Mexico. My personal opinion is that all this was done under German Nazi influence. It was said that Germans were in the mob but I didn't see them...
...dissolving, vanishing. Their motions were real quiet, against a background of silence. It was real quiet because their collisions with the glass should have broken the stillness; instead, the absence of a sound where there should have been one made a crevice in the night, transforming it into a riot of noise by contrast. Reflected in the glass he could see the flames in the fireplace lick across the wood, hushing its crackle...
...white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...head of New Zealand's Government when the world depression hit bottom in 1931 was Prime Minister George William Forbes, whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger...