Word: routs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palace Cabinet" persistently refused to resign, despite the utter rout of its nominal supporters at the polls. Its real backers were more than hinted at in a widely credited rumor that Lord Lloyd had demanded, as British High Commissioner to Egypt, that if a Wafd cabinet should be formed special guarantees must be given Britain respecting Suez and the Sudan. A despatch positively asserted that he had also demanded the right to "approve" the members of any new cabinet which might be formed "in the interests of public safety...
There was every indication last week that the rebellious Druses who have long fiercely resisted the attempts of France to administer Syria as a League Mandate, are continuing their guerrilla raids upon the French forces, which, with their European war equipment, easily rout these rude but courageous semi-savages whenever an actual pitched battle occurs...
...this year as last spring, when the Maine outfit played the Crimson, 8 to 5. They have been hard hit by graduation, and the late spring has not afforded them much opportunity for practice. In their opening home game the Brunswickers lost to Bates in a 15 to 5 rout. Loose fielding and the wildness of the three twirlers who officiated for Bowdoin are blamed for the defeat. Bates scored nine runs in the sixth after two were out, when Robinson issued five passes and was sent to the showers under a barrage of hits...
...years ago these Independents had their first show. Having survived the cannonade of laughter that welcomed them, they proceeded, under the chaperonage of John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases...
...Incident. A miser, who distrusts his socialist nephew, screams for joy out of the window when imperial troops rout the revolutionaries. A stray bullet catches him in the chin...