Word: riotousness
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...could be raised for standing prayers. Students listened reverently to the pastor's prayers, but the "amens" were usually followed by a thundering crash as freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon in 1812, a discharged company of Cambridge militia marched triumphantly into the church, "with drum and fife affronting the Sabbath." With measured tramp and fife trilling, they filed into the front galleries, but the congregation studiously ignored them; the long...
Personal Label. They had reason to expect fireworks. After the riotous premiere of The Plough, O'Casey crossed the Irish Sea to settle in England, and since then a lot of damns have flowed over the water. He has tilted with eloquence and venom at many an Irish figure and foible in his plays and in the massive six-volume autobiography poured out over the past 15 years (TIME, Nov. 15). Ireland banned four of the volumes, but the Irish theater knows no censorship. Arch-Individualist O'Casey was free last week to speak his unconventional piece from...
Died. James A. (for Aloysius) Johnston, 79, longtime (1934-48) warden of Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly...
...Japan at the rate of $800 million to $900 million a year. On a nation struggling up from the ashes of defeat and destruction in World War II. the effect was something like that of a lottery windfall on a poor and unstable clerk. It was fine, it was riotous, while it lasted; it was terrible when it stopped. The Japanese spent too much for luxuries, not enough on modernizing their industry and otherwise bracing their economy against the inevitable end of the Korean boom...
...months ago, General Fazlollah Zahedi, Iran's new Premier, emerged from hiding into Teheran's riotous streets to begin a race. He had exactly $45 million worth of time-a gift from the U.S.-to get Iran back into oil production and onto a stable basis. Zahedi popped the $45 million into the Bank Melli as Account No. 30824 and set to work...