Word: riotousness
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...rowdyism of the Royalists met with hostile comment in the Chambre des Députés, where within three months another riotous scene occurred (TIME, March 31). Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged...
...Ramsey Macdonald, British Labor Leader, in a recent number of the Socialist Review animadverts upon riotous behavior in the House of Commons: " I detest these scenes. One heated furnace of a man can lead the legitimate calls of ' adjourn ' into the badly sung strains of Rule Britannia or The Red Flag or Tipperary or fisticuffs and not only make a fool of himself but degrade everyone associated with him. Fascism was stimulated into life by communist tactics...
...boys and girls who once played riotous games in the streets and vacant lots now sit quietly watching a movie...
...present theatre-going public wants emotional thrill of some kind. If it gets this, it goes home satisfied, regardless of the structure of the play and the probability of the plot". The result is the popularity of the mystery plays like The Cat and the Canary, or of riotous farces such as The First Year. During the past season, plays of undoubted merit failed in New York owing to this particular taste for the exotic and thrilling...
...foolish that he and many another student has marred the family pride in imbibing spirituous toasts after the victory over Eli. Of course it is fun to Scheck the pious elders, and to make the name Harvard obnoxious to the good people who chanced to be in the riotous vicinity. In thus abandoning themselves to drunken joy have the celebrants been fulfilling a traditional rite? If so, such tradition should be stopped in the name of the law if not of morality. For those future leaders in the republic thus to be wanton law-breakers is bad practice. They have...