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...Violette Nozières was too hasty in calling for aid, for her mother was not quite dead when the ambulance arrived. The girl stole 1,500 francs from her dead father's wallet and spent a riotous week in Montmartre bistros, living successively with a German, a Negro, an Egyptian. She broke with each in turn when he expressed the hope that the police would catch the murderess about whom all the papers were writing. Finally a young student recognized her from her published photographs, turned her over to the police...
...sunny public square of Marino, a medieval town high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...
...until the visitors reached Manhattan last week did their political creed make really riotous headlines. At New York University a crowd of students gathered outside the Hall of Fame, yelled "To Hell with Fascism!" The Italians marched out, cheerfully drowned the hecklers with a chant of "Il Duce! Il Duce! Il Duce! II Duce!" Policemen prevented more than a few mild fisticuffs...
Apprehensively predicting a season of riotous living, the Southern Baptists zealously voted to promote an intensive spiritual revival this summer...
...Result is that the leucemia victim grows anemic, dies. The same bedside picture follows chronic lymphatic leucemia. But here the lymph system is in a rage of activity and smothers other vital processes. The acute form of the disease is explosive. Policemen cells apparently on regular duty suddenly become riotous. Lymph and marrow overwork furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that...