Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisy, red-nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys, "you're too burlesquey." But in 1927 he got his break. An ex-vaudevillian named Harry Delmar put a revue on Broadway, and asked Lahr to bring...
Students expressed amazement at the voluminous files of research contrasted with the brevity of stories as they appeared in print. After reading 29 pages on the Cicero race riot story, whittled to 3½ columns in the magazine, a University of Nebraska student said: "All this is so interesting-why didn't you use the whole thing?" Ecker likened the TIME story to an iceberg, with the small portion seen on the surface supported by the great bulk underneath. With a whole world to cover each week, TIME would quickly overburden its readers by reporting every detail of every...
...whole history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room, but communication was possible through the portholes, and on this particular Sunday night, all kinds of edibles flew through the air with the greatest of ease from one room to the next. A poem commemorated the event, which brought aging graduate John Adams to propose the revival of the practice of flogging students, and a few meaty lines should convey the spirit of the evening...
...Another riot occurred later, when somebody referred, in the course of saying grace, to this "fresh instance of bounty" in the midst of what was described as the "ancient and fishlike smell" of University Hall. The discontinuation of grace allegedly can be traced to the resulting disturbance. And beyond doubt, it was just this attitude on the part of the student body that precipitated the final exit of overcooked ducks from University Hall, and the entrance of deans...
...speculators had been caught short in July rye and their rush to "cover" had pushed up the price. Another factor pointed to a corner: at the end of the trading period, there were still 952 "open contracts" in July rye (i.e., agreements to buy and sell), which could riot be executed because there was no grain available, indicating that someone had bought up the visible supply...