Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot of rejoicing which the Mishnah, Talmudic commentary on Mosaic Laws, reflects in the phrase: "He who has not seen the joy of the libations of Tabernacles has never in his life witnessed...
Tall and muscular, he kept his hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...
...move freely inside and I see no reason why they should not enjoy the amenities of seagoing passengers of today in the way of promenades, dancing, games and music. To fly from Paris or London to New York will be commonplace." Now this speaker was Louis Blériot, who, in July, 1909, performed the then unheard-of feat of flying across the English Channel. The Blériot monoplane of 1909 was something of a portent and Louis Blériot has been building aircraft ever since. Never till last week had he repeated his flight of 1909, either...
...week Archbishop Ruiz arrived at Mexico City, galvanized the indignation of even callous newspapermen with news of an atrocity. Five Catholic priests, declared Archbishop Ruiz, had been seized in the state of Michoacan by troops under command of General Mange. The priests were charged with inciting the populace to riot, were marched without trial to the Hacienda La Gua Yaba, were lined up against a stone wall and shot down by a firing squad...
...about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene is a good metaphor for the practice of sombre Psychologist Wassermann, the eminent German author of Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner...