Word: riotousness
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...that fishes in the dark pool of national affairs finds many such riotous bubbles contemporary on the surface. Some day someone will pull out the fish, big or little, that causes them. If not sufficiently palatable for the frying pan, it will serve excellently well if stuffed for the national museum. Meanwhile the weather is moderately good, and patience as every complete angler, and very few policeman, know makes the biggest catch...
...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...
Here is the true story of Supaya-lat (as Author Jesse spells her) and how she came to be Thibaw's queen; how the riotous, sometimes murderous goings-on in the Golden Palace of Mandalay finally brought the British to Upper Burma, to extinguish in one night the picture-book existence of the Lord of All Power and Glory, the Centre of the Universe...
...hips, from keg to kitchen." New York's Representative Sirovich, a physician, gave the House his annual demonstration of the effects of wood alcohol and other governmental denaturants on the human system. Members squirmed at his account of fatty degeneration of the liver. After three hours of riotous debate, the House refused to change the Treasury's methods of denaturing industrial alcohol, or to vote $300,000,000 for Dry enforcement. It allowed $50,000 for official U. S. Dry propaganda and finally passed the Treasury Appropriation Bill carrying $33,000,000 for enforcement of Prohibition...
...Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the women," concluded Dr. Shiels, "His Majesty's Government is informed that they were encouraged in their provocation by a man who told them that British troops would never fire on persons of their...