Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would so directly make for peace as to be assured that the defensive strength of our nation resides in those citizens for whom war is not a profession, who belong to no military caste, to no military party, who are free from the suggestions and the control of a mob impulse, and who not only have been trained in the knowledge of war-fare, but also have been grounded in the fundamental principles of just and fair dealing between man and man, and between nation and nation as well...
...hands than one join is its production. The book reviews are below the Monthly's average. They do not touch books worth review, and they are inconclusive as well as over-lengthy. One editorial sets squarely before the University the blight which the Freshman dormitories threaten--a College of mob-driven athletics and "class spirit." The other, under the rather surprising through flattering title, "Shall Harvard Menace Neutrality?" puts that reputed difficulty before us about as clearly as such an absurd possibility can be demonstrated...
...life, and threatens to publish them, unless Durgan agrees to veto a bill for a new water works, one of the chief issues of the campaign. Durgan, of course, refuses, the boss releases the story by means of Durgan's own phone, it appears in an extra, and the mob enters enraged. Then Durgan makes a great speech to it, tells it the truth about himself, also what he is doing for it, the people, and once more the people turn to his support...
...irony of it! After 40 minutes of lambent, death-defying play as the game was drawing to a close, a figure shot out from the mob and down on the CRIMSON goal. It was Buel of the Lampoon. A mighty shout rose from the men of yellow streaks. But they reckoned without Hollister. In the first half as rover for the Lampoon, he had shone, nay scintillated. He had distinguished himself as the only man to be put off the ice for questionable playing throughout the game. Now, as goal for the CRIMSON, he proved his versatility. Under press...
...Hinks captures him, brings him back to work. With a mob of crazed mothers who gather outside the mill when piercing screams come from within, we learn that "Skinny" has been injured in the machinery. Martha takes him to his cabin and nurses him. From the lips of old Hinks she hears the story of how he took him from a dying man in a hospital who owed him money; and she knows that "Skinny" is her own child...