Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some $58,000 to I.L.A. officials, with a regular $100 Christmas envelope for Joe Ryan, the boss of I.L.A. Jules Sottnek & Son, stevedores, paid I.L.A. bosses $14,402 in five years. A Sottnek vice president staked Mike Clemente, an I.L.A. straw boss and graduate of the Socks Lanza mob, to an $11,000 wedding for his daughter. President James C. Kennedy of the stevedoring firm of Daniels & Kennedy, Inc. personally dropped off a sealed envelope, containing $1,500 in cash, every year at Joe Ryan's office. All burly Joe said was "hello," and "thanks...
...deserve high praise for their performances. Among the principals I would criticize only Theadore Gershuny, who made Coriolanus a much more neurotic man than he should be. Coriolanus is meant to be a great man, great in stature, great in battle, great in his defiance of the Roman mob, great in his pride. There is nothing petty about him, but Gershuny, by sweeping about with a Byronic cloak and consistently overplaying, managed often to defeat his purpose and reduce the great man to mere neuroticism. But this is a question of interpretation and perhaps I am wrong; certainly Gershuny...
...only other serious objection concerns the unhappy wisp of men who represent the Roman and Volscian crowds, Senators, Guards, etc. and etc. Of course one expects to find the same faces in opposing armies, and one expects "crowds" to be small in number, but unfortunately the mob has a very important part in the construction of the play, since it is Coriolanus' distaste for the common herd which sets the whole plot in motion. But one cannot imagine his being the least bit aroused by the six or seven who, hot from their most recent costume change, are set against...
...mob started down Rashid Street. As it passed the U.S. Information Service Building, a group, led by a known Communist and carrying oil, crowbars and battering rams, broke ranks and headed straight for the USIS. The men battered down steel shutters (it was Sunday), climbed inside and methodically began pitching everything out of the windows-books, typewriters, files, cabinets, papers, a safe. Then they doused the thousands of jumbled books and magazines with oil and fired them. The building was also set afire. Within an hour the USIS establishment in Baghdad, valued at $125,000, an important weapon...
...mob tore on, paused before the English-language Iraq Times, and rolled paraffin under the steel doors (the Reds came well prepared), setting it afire. An automatic weapon chattered at the rioters from atop the police station. The mob, roaring like a wounded beast, rolled massively to the police station, set it in flames, tore apart three policemen as they scuttled out, and beheaded one of the bodies. A comparative handful of Reds, commanding an army of malcontents, had all but taken over ancient Baghdad, a city...