Word: riotousness
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...years. In 1891 Perry, a trainman of the New York Central, longed for luxurious living. One night he sawed his way into his train's money car, overpowered the guard, and while the train was still in motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand, kept him covered...
...goat was Dr. Joseph Vass, 53, Minister for Social Welfare & Labor, and acting Prime Minister. He was a Roman Catholic Monsignor, formerly professor of theology at the University of Budapest before he entered politics ten years ago as a leader of the Christian National Party. He was unaccustomed to riotous conduct. Last week's disturbances caused his death, from heart failure...
...Senate had to humble itself before the President and the House on World War pension legislation (see p. 17) and cash for the National Law Enforcement Commission. With the House marking time for the Senate to catch up, Congressmen packed into the Senate chamber to watch the final riotous scenes there, to hear hostile Senators shout and roar their political hatred of the Hoover Administration...
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles savior, visiting Paris on her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, announced that she had written the music and libretto to an opera, The Fiery Furnace. The scene is laid in the riotous court of the Pharaohs, the music to combine Old Testament themes and Jazz. Although first intended to be presented only at the Angelus Temple, Savior McPherson said that she had been persuaded to have it performed "at all opera houses in America...
...speaking out against extravagance. President Hoover shifted his ground under this attack, appealed to the country at large to support economy. ¶ President Hoover selected John North Willys, onetime motorman, as U. S. Ambassador to Poland, to succeed the late Alexander Pollock Moore. ¶ With unemployment causing riotous disturbances throughout the land, President Hoover was pleased last week to receive a report from the public utility group of his business revival committee that utility building projects for 1930 would total $1,500,000,000. ¶ President Hoover, with Mrs. Hoover, attended the funeral of Mabel Hunter Richey, late wife...