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...riotous bullring inaugural was not bad enough, Toriello's casino attracted little betting, his dog races were put off because of construction strikes, and his fellow businessmen showed no interest in the fair's industrial pavilions. A big hall labeled "International Exposition" held only four exhibits, one of them Toriello's steel office furniture. And to top it all, the hopefully awaited crowds of U.S. tourists failed to show...
...four sons moved to New York a little more than a century ago, changed Steinweg to Steinway, and set out to win a U.S. reputation. A second-generation Steinway was responsible for some 45 pioneering patents, some of them so revolutionary that one of his pianos caused almost riotous excitement at the Paris exposition of 1867. The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center of the soundboard, which then...
Bloomingtonians repeat the usual Kinsey jokes. Residents driving east on First Street point out the Kinseys' brick house (which he designed) behind a riotous growth of trees and shrubs (which he planted). Friends know him by a nickname-"Prok," a contraction of Prof. K. But on shopping streets around the town square, Dr. Kinsey passes unidentified and unnoticed...
Moving Furniture. To put an end to all the stalling, De Gasperi demanded a vote of confidence. That automatically restricted deputies to one final speech apiece, and inside & outside the Chamber Togliatti's toughs made the most of it. They touched off a riotous general strike which filled the streets of Italy's biggest cities with the sounds of surging crowds, police sirens and thudding truncheons. As the Chamber went into a nonstop session, the Reds monopolized the sofas and emergency cots set up in the Chamber, so that tired non-Communist deputies could not catch cat naps...
Across the field, riotous Rinehart, the lonely freshman whose name has become the battecry of the Harvard man in trouble, will have Dudley, Leverett, Lowell and Kirkland men backing...