Word: riotousness
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Oranges and tomatoes flew and eggs smashed yesterday afternoon on the steps of Widener in the most riotous exhibition a Freshman class has furnished at a Senior begging in years. Little of the humor and good feeling characteristic of the taking of former Senior and Freshman pictures was evident in the battle which raged between the two classes yesterday...
...Billy Sundays of their day, who toured England with riotous success...
High blood pressure, a disease mainly of old age results from many causes-riotous living, too strenuous athletics, brain fatigue, disease, any undue strain on the human corporation. To repair damage to worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself...
...ancient Greece, the victorious athlete was adjudged a crown of olive, his praises were sung in an ode, and his triumphs were celebrated by a magnificent procession, and a riotous evening festival. In modern America, where olives do not abound except in jars, where the art of ode-making has degenerated since the time of Homer, where processions are a nuisance to traffic officers, and riotous festivals are rather stupid for lack of the means of making them genuinely riotous, it has been necessary to seek a new reward for unbeaten brawn...
...advertised as the 100th from the pen of Owen Davis. As a matter of fact he has written 130 odd, and become financially at least, the most successful of our native dramatists. Among his plays are the appalling melodramas of the early days (Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model), riotous farces (The Nervous Wreck) and the sound and moving Pulitzer Prize Play, Icebound. This latest falls into the second category...