Word: riotousness
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...defeat. I have known bathrooms downstairs utilized, nor for legitimate purposes but for the illegitimate purpose of packing as many members surreptiously inside their doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government napping and turning it out on a stupid issue. I am not going to go out on any such issue...
...some time there has been some violent criticism in the Fatherland of German plutocrats who, in violation of every canon of good taste and human decency, have lived riotous lives abroad while the masses of German people starve at home...
...solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...
...shall not take part in any noisy or riotous actions or demonstration in the streets or other public grounds of the city of New Haven, nor commit any offense against the peace or prosperity of its citizens...
...admirable but apparently extreme. For they have persevered in their intention of stamping out disturbances between "town and gown" at no matter what cost to undergraduate activities. According to the latest report Sophomores have been asked to sign a pledge promising not to "take part in any noisy or riotous actions or demonstration in the streets of New Haven" and to do all in their power to prevent their "fellow students from offending against the peace or prosperity of this city or its citizens...