Word: riotousness
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...tool of the interests," provided Editor Banks with an armed bodyguard and a small army of minute men in the foothills, subject to his call at the signal of open revolution. Banks led a riotous march on the Court House, made a speech from the steps, would have thrown out the county officials bodily if the American Legion had not intervened. Oregon newspapers began referring to the "Mad Dog of Medford," and to the county as "The State of Paranoia." In February 1933 Editor Robert Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks...
...Athens last week Greek newsboys pattering down the streets brought news to cause swarthy citizens to choke over their sweet coffee and baklava. In flaring headlines the newspaper Hestia claimed that during a riotous local election Italian carabinieri had swept down on the little village of Salacos on the Island of Rhodes firing volleys into the unarmed villagers. Planes from the Italian base on Leros had bombed the town. Ten were killed, at least 30 wounded...
Married. Athos Terzani, 31, Manhattan taxi driver and antiFascist; and one Tillie Golia; in Irving Plaza Hall, Manhattan. Best man: Norman Thomas, No. 1 U. S. Socialist. Wedding guests: some 600 Socialists, Communists, anarchists, syndicalists, antiFascists. Day before Terzani had been acquitted of fatally shooting a friend at a riotous meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America (Fascist) last July...
...upperclass courses. A majority of the undergraduates, after the Christmas vacation, will begin a diligent search for lecture notes, either among their friends or among the numerous tutoring agencies which thrive just outside the gates of the Yard. It is not only those who have spent the fall in riotous living who will be engaged in this prevalent mid-year sport, but all those who have cut lectures freely and all those to whom extensive note-taking is a distraction from lectures...
...liquor was on sale early in the evening. According to reports received late last night, the celebrators had been deceived by confused newspaper accounts, and had imagined that no liquor would be sold until ten o'clock at the earliest. This fact probably did much to prevent any too riotous demonstration, although, when last word was had, the drinkers were doing their best to make up for the time they had lost. Hotels and other places so fortunate as to have procured a license by the time liquor went on sale were doing a rushing business; they did not report...