Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food riot in starving Naples, in which the camera plunges into a crowd of women, there catches a frieze of violence as fierce and eloquent as light conversation among the Furies...
...intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class Day alcoholism are sparse, but early in the 1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON recalled "the good old days, when ... a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery was set up in the middle of the Yard, where...
...Almost Martyr. The Word sent by Moscow in 1930 to the Communist Party, U.S.A. was: "Seize the streets." It meant: riot, raise hell, harass the law. If heads were cracked, so much the better; cracked heads made martyrs. In the first year of the great depression, California's population was resentful and disorderly. Thousands were out of work. The arm of the law was muscular and impatient...
...about 2,500 students were on strike. For three days pickets paraded, hooted at "scabs," skirmished with police, cheered & jeered in mass rallies. They played dirges for the "death of democracy," took collections to "bury the bigots," flaunted signs inscribed NO HATE-MONGERS AT C.C.N.Y. and JOIN OUR QUIET RIOT. A long-simmering old dispute over two teachers, whom the college refused to fire, had boiled over...
...proper Bostonians it looked as if a riot had broken out. A crowd of 5,000 pushing, milling people surged against the brawny arms of bluecoats. But it was not quite a riot: it was merely the first big postwar men's-wear sale at Filene's bargain basement. Filene's had been getting ready for 36 months, by picking up slow-selling lots of merchandise (men's suits, topcoats and overcoats) from other stores. It had everything from $65 suits with John Wanamaker's label to bulky lumps of cheap woolens. Last week...