Word: routing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, Dr. Gillies' theories were put to rout by the brilliant and erratic Roger Wethered...
...troops of President Diaz of Nicaragua (recognized by the U. S.). Sacasa forces had been pressing hard early in the week, upon Diaz troops defending the cities Chinandega, Leon and loma. When these cities were occupied by U. S. marines, their onetime defenders were able to rally and rout the attacking troops. The instant was ripe for President Diaz, synchronous with U. S. financial interests, to propose the further subordination of his country...
...Massacre and plundering oh a large scale in Shanghai would be the natural consequence of the rout of Sun's armies, except for the prompt action of the British Government in sending troops just in time...
Broadway has lately blazed with headlines: "Sex Plays Raided," "Police Rout Vice Show," etc. etc. What actually occurred was more polite. By arrangement with the managements, detectives called in police limousines for the actors, actresses, producers and authors of The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man. They called after the evening performances, like well-behaved escorts. In night court, pleased judges accepted packets of bail. Then everyone posed for flashlight pictures. The hearings were vaguely postponed. Day courts furnished the theatres with injunctions against further "persecution...
...annual Quatre Arts ball where all cares are lost at 9 o'clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been enacted-frenzied dancing, delirious overtures, posturing, French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle...