Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace) Committee Against War Propaganda. And those pickets, in turn, are being counter-picketed by the Catholic War Veterans. A petition of protest against the film has been signed by 297 leading Protestant clergy over the country, including five bishops. On the opening night, there was a near-riot beneath the Roxy marquee, involving reported 2,000 persons. Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, of 20th Century Fox, said "those who banded together last night to boycott the film are attacking the basic American right of free-expression...
...school asked his mother whether Eddie was feeling better. Said his mother: "I didn't know he wasn't feeling well." Eddie had been playing hooky for 43 days, using his lunch money for carfare out to Latonia, to fool around the horses. His father read him the riot act and sent him back to school. Six months later his parents caught him driving back from the race track again in the family Packard...
...first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers, his feet crossed in his best Position...
Police ended that riot, but still, the yelling goes on with undiminished intensity. Yesterday, things hit their peak for Altrocchi. A shoeshine gamin, strolling under his window, looked up and screeched, "Hey, Altrocchi, wanna shine...
There was another tribute that might have pleased Gandhi even more: Moslem coolies were working at New Delhi's railway station again. A few Moslems had begun to drift back to their old farms. In twelve weeks there had been only one communal riot in all India...