Word: riotousness
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...were bitterly assailed. Communist sympathizers pointed out that during the four days' rioting that followed Bloody May Day. only one policeman received a bullet wound-an accidental wound inflicted by himself. Of the rioters, 27 were killed, more than 100 injured. Scores of non-Communist shopkeepers from the riotous Berlin districts said that they did not see a single civilian shoot at the police...
...Moines police appeared after a while, dispersed the riotous students. Guarded in a police wagon. Dr. Shields and Secretary-Treasurer Rebman were carried to the safety of a precinct police station. There Dr. Shields admitted he knew not what he would do next...
Earlier in the day her trial had ended riotous with wisecracks. The courtroom had bulged with spectators. In the corridors countless more pressed toward the door for the free show, while in the streets about the Federal Building thousands stood to wait for the verdict. The jury's "not guilty" loosed a raucous uproar of approval. The crowd "gave the little girl a great big hand" (her cliche...
...Their citizenship, mostly newborn, surged within them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode out to quiet his charges. They ignored him and roistered long and late...
Like bootleg champagne is the synthetic "diary" of a Soviet schoolboy,*** actually written by a Soviet schoolmaster. Though the perverse temptations of adolescence are decadently dwelt upon, the general picture of riotous, exuberant democracy in a Soviet schoolroom glows with the ruddy crudity of triumphant youth...