Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fred Johnson, prominent member of the Lee Highway Association, with his associates; 4) James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a petition for the release of 54 Negroes of the 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Penitentiary for the Houston Riot of 1917; 5) Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. Even the President was reported to have found this a case of too much Johnson; he addressed one of the Johnsons on a subject which pertained to another...
...study law. Some years after, he headed a revolt in Crete against the Turks which was entirely successful. The Turks offered autonomy for Canea, but Venizelos refused, desiring union not of the town of Canea, but of all the island of Crete with Greece. His attitude caused a riot in which he was nearly stabbed. At night when he was asleep his house was set on fire, but he succeeded in escaping...
...merged into another it became increasingly certain that the Labor Party would be sustained in moving an amendment on the Address from the Throne.* Amid the riot of British parliamentary news four facts stood out clearly. First, Ramsay Macdonald, the Labor leader, in delivering himself of a stinging criticism on the King's speech, declared that his Party lacked confidence in His Majesty's Government, and that it would restore British influence in Europe for humane ends. Second, ex-Premier H. H. Asquith pledged his aid and the aid of the Liberal Party in putting the Labor Party...
...protest took the shape of a highly naturalistic narrative called The Enormous Room. In the present volume we have a collection of his poetry. His work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift of the inevitable word, he at least can always find the unexpected one. Cummings is intrusively frank, self-consciously courageous, flinging his novelties with...
...Putsch (pronounced putch) means riot, and usually connotes attempt...