Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always knew Italians were very passionate people," reflected Ingrid Bergman, still getting her breath after her admiring fans caused a near-riot at a Roman press conference, "but I didn't know they were that passionate...
...TIME, June 14-21). It contained a portrait of one of Juárez' anticlerical followers displaying a placard with the words Dios no existe-"God does not exist." The slogan was drawn straight from Mexican revolutionary history, but in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico it still spelled riot. The Archbishop refused to bless the hotel...
Bravos & Whistles. The spectators, who can shake the theater with bravos and oles, are inclined to riot when displeased; but Montalban, who keeps plenty of spirit of ammonia on hand for emergencies, says the police have been "very helpful." In their enthusiasm, the aficionados disdain such pallid Yankee conventions as waiting at the stage door for autographs. When they wanted the signature of Mexican Cowboy Singer Negrete, hundreds of them piled right up on the stage. But they are avid practitioners of the U.S. custom of whistling in approval. The piercing whistles once drove a singer to tears when Manager...
...hours last night some 700 freshmen decorously watched 11 assorted acts move across the Sanders Theater stage in the entertainment half of the Freshman Smoker. The minute the last performer--singer Pat Rainey--finished her routine, the 700 poured into Memorial Hall and proceeded to create the riot scene they had heard from upperclassmen was characteristic of Freshman Smokers...
Other students involved in the early morning near-riot escaped two police officers who made the single arrest. When questioned as to whether the other carousers were being sought at present, Cambridge police officials stated that they had evaded the arm of the law and would probably go undetected...