Word: riotousness
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Leon and Eddie's (33 W. 56th St.) offers a riotous time with the hottest show in town. Always a young crowd...
Last month, without incident, Kentucky Republicans nominated King Swope, 40-year-old Lexington jurist, to be their candidate for Governor. Simultaneously the State's Democrats saw to it that the Dark & Bloody Ground's tradition for riotous elections did not fade. In the course of their primary balloting one was killed, several injured and the Adjutant General of the State was indicted for marching his militia into Harlan County in violation of a court injunction...
...more than three hundred years ago that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...
...House Committees on Territories & Insular Affairs, Mr. Yates filed charges of extravagance, inefficiency and corruption against Governor Pearson, demanded an investigation. Senator Tydings took up the cause, persuaded the Senate to let him head an investigating committee. By that time the Islands had become such a snarling, spitting, riotous cage of political tomcats that both sides welcomed the prospect of a Congressional airing...
Having attended the University at a time when the elective system was in its first riotous stages of freedom and liberalism, he ardently defended the system of concentration and distribution requirements, saying: "We must arouse an educational appetite as well as sharpen the tools which...