Word: riotousness
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...Year idea caught on with a bang and, somewhat surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade, nor a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone was runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928.) The two criteria are always these: who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did the most to change the news for better (like Stalin in 1942) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...Flemish Pieter Breughel the Elder's riotous, sexy The Wedding Dance, one of the world's best loved old-master paintings...
...sharpest rise in attendance (60.2% over last year) has been in the southwest. There a riotous Randolph Field service team led by an ex-All America from Virginia, Lieut. Bill Dudley, has hammered Rice 59-to-0, Texas 42-to-6, Southern Methodist 41-to-0 and two service teams for an average of 45.6 points per game against 1.2 for the opposition. Last week Dudley & Co., with ex-high-school coach Lieut. Frank Tritico directing, swamped the North Texas Aggies...
...could never remember which one was Marianne, which Marguerite. Chic, brunette Marianne ("hostesses delighted in the brilliance of her conversation") made indolent young William work so hard that he passed the Royal Navy exams. William was "deuced fond" of Marianne, but he loved vivacious Marguerite, whose hair was "a riotous mop of natural curls" (Marianne had to use curlpapers...
...TIME) is a meandering, optimistic survey of the geopolitical entity which Britons call "the widest system of organized freedom in the world" and which Winston Churchill intends to keep on calling the British Empire. Examining India, the film forthrightly includes shots of native police wielding their cudgels on a riotous city mob. But it also looks at schools, hospitals, factories and irrigation projects, asserts that India has benefited from British rule and may gradually win full Dominion status. Further glimpses of air-minded Canada, industrially ambitious Australia, contentedly agrarian New Zealand, rich, up-&-coming South Africa, lead M.O.T. to conclude...