Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood of senior contests from Dartmouth, from Yale, from Princeton, which indicate the favorite drink, most popular movie actress and best-looking men is the respective classes, occupy enough space in the newspapers to show clearly enough what is expected from the colleges. The latest riot at Yale, when fifty policemen charged a dormitory on account of a single bag of water-such as are familiar between Russell and Randolph--is given seven inches in even the "Transcript" and two-inch headlines in the "Globe...
...from above and below is obviously unfair. The case for the New York subways can be proved without argument, by merely pointing to a glorious past of accidents. Indeed no more than three or four weeks ago one train, by its speed, created a short circuit and an ensuing riot of three thousand; while but a short time before another train speeded its wheels off and forced the passengers to hoist themselves up for air by ladder. In the Londoners' challenge there is no mention of the comparative velocities of London and New York cab horses. The only possible explanation...
...average sporting scrivener should step out of the press box at the Polo Grounds and exchange his ordinary raiment for a Giant baseball uniform there might be a riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer...
...after all, the well-fed man is a well-contented man, and the abstraction of personal freedom would hardly have been sufficient provocation. It was probably a bread-riot as much as a revolt against tyranny. Side-long glances may be expected from the management of our own Freshman Dining Halls. The Yale precedent is not reassuring. A plate of tepid soup, like a more famous dish of tea, contains the germs of revolution...
Attention may be called to the fact that in June, 1919, when the great disturbances--the rice riot so called occurred all over Japan proper as a result of the scarcity of rice with the consequently prohibitive price of this food to the average Japanese family, a law was passed to promote and encourage the farmers who engage in the reclamation of the country's waste lands. The law provided for a governmental guarantee of 6 percent interest upon the capital invested by its farmers. I must emphasize the fact that it was only because of this 6 percent guarantee...