Word: riotousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day it took the Senate three hours' debate to reach a second Bonus vote. The galleries were packed with ex-soldiery. Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware, upholding the President, complained that veterans would "blow in their loans on automobiles and riotous living." He exclaimed: "I do know many ex-soldiers who would steal their certificates from their wives and go out and spend the night with some other woman." Howls and hisses descended upon him from the galleries...
...controversy just after the fund raised by a group of alumni to pay their back wages had succeeded in removing the matter from the field of, as the liberal journals call it, public discussion. It appears that the Lampoon has published a cartoon representing the scrubwomen as having a riotous spree on the proceeds of the money paid them at Christmas...
...rays and radium are potent weapons against the Cancer Ogre. They burn the turbulent, riotous cancer cells to death. But they may also kill healthy cells. Only expert technicians should fight cancer with X-rays or radium. (The same warning applies of course to the scalpel or cautery wielder.†) Research. Although the causes and ra tional treatment of Cancer are undetermined, a vast amount of research on the subject has piled up. Most of it is recent accumulation. First important international conference was held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. in 1926. The U. S. has nine first-rate research...
...evening last fortnight some 200 University of Mississippi students stood about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
...three chief occasions for punishment were, in those days, absence from classes, noisy disorder (usually horn blowing), and riotous outbreaks which were often accompanied by drunkeness and the wanton destruction of property...