Word: riotings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, husband of Bertha Krupp,* spoke last week in Essen at the unveiling of a monument to the 13 employes of the Krupp Works who were killed by French occupation troops in a 1923 riot. Said he: "Every German should think daily and hourly of this miserable French sanguinary act. What the French did to the Germans cries for vengeance and revenge. How fervently we must hate has been taught us by the French. This hate should be holy to us. It should be handed down as a legacy from generation to generation until that...
...Stories. When Victoria's granddaughter, German Alix of Hesse, came to her new Russian home as affianced bride of the Cesarevitch, the emotions of an emotional people ran riot, mingling curiosity and doubt with vague glamorous expectations and pity. Of Anglo-German lineage-would she sympathize with Slavic-Byzantine fancies and foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage...
There appears in an adjoining column, under the title of "Student Muckcrism," an editorial from a Boston newspaper which, in its efforts to censure the recent "subway riot" of a few undergraduates, refers to Harvard in insulting language, achieving no more in its accusations than the bad-manners which it claims to have discovered. With the exception of a similar affair last spring, which was aggravated by too-zealous policemen, there is no recent precedent for the occurrence on Monday evening. Such an isolated and mild occasion scarcely calls for the thunders of the press to be couched...
From almost any other Chinaman such words would have provoked a student riot...
Policemen stifled a riot...