Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bennett the University of Michigan senior who was charged with "inciting a mob to violence" in the disturbances last week has just been convicted and fined $50.00 in apparently a very arbitrary manner...
Lost.- On Monday night, in the dressing-room of the mob, a brown pocket book, bill size. The owner's name was stamped on the inside. Will the finder please leave it at 1 Holyoke House...
...performance. Perhaps the most noticeable fault was the indistinct enunciation of some of the characters who, in their endeavors to disguise their natural voices, lost distinctness at times in their delivery. The acting was unconstrained and showed a certain ease and naturalness not often found among amateur performers. The mob was almost perfect, rivalling any rabble which has been seen at the theatres for years; Mr. Hutchins as second citizen deserves especial mention...
...first scene was very realistic. The howling mob carried the spectator back to the days when the first Caesar ruled in Rome. But the tribunes who dispersed the mob seemed to feel the oppressive circumstances of their first appearance, and did their appointed task in a highly "stagey" manner. In the scene which brought the entire company before the audience. the action was fairly effective, although some crudeness was visible. Mr. Cummings, as Caesar, while fairly preserying the austere dignity of the Roman failed somewhat in the very difficult work required of him by appearing too unrelaxed and imperial...
...mob was extremely effective, and did its work in a very mob-like manner. The costuming of the actors was good throughout...