Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent, perambulating Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who moves constantly about China with a mobile haste, assembled his generals in Chenchow, Honan Province, last week. To them he read a riot act which amounted to the warning that he will positively capture Peking, next spring, and that thereafter "China will not stand further unfair treatment from other countries...
...Plough and the Stars. About 10 p. m. on the night of November 27, 1911 there was a riot at a Manhattan theatre. Eithne Magee, chief actress, was bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported...
...made six points to six for W. & J. Georgia, unbeaten and untied, stormed over Alabama for the first time in six years, 20-6. At Winthrop, Mass., seven went to the hospital, but net from football injuries. Revere High School followers snatched the Winthrop High School banner. Ensued a riot; folk in the stands peppered folk on the field with heavy rocks. A neighboring garrison of U. S. soldiers was summoned; cleared the field with bayonets, sustaining six casualties. The game proceeded. Revere snatched the game...
...thus been taken care of, taught trades, etc. But the homes are evidently not all they are supposed to be, for recently the head of one institution was arrested because he placed iodine on the tongues of boys using bad language, because he turned a hose on a small riot and because he sewed the shirts of two youthful fighters together "like Siamese twins." The punishment of the youngsters seemed to be well merited, considering what thugs they are-but not in the eyes of the Bolsheviki...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...