George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.
He gained several successes, but after he submitted his resignation, he was sent to the guillotine by the bloodthirsty French Revolutionary Committee because of his "undue leniency to the insurgents".
Letterman's crack about younger performers who use Twitter and Facebook was a shout-out to the talk-show host's core audience, the late-night viewers who decades ago defined themselves as the insurgents who preferred Mr.
A poor half-grown boy in a ragged blouse fought among the older insurgents.
