Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few cheers and a couple of songs, the mob will take off for the Indoor Athletic Building--by way of Holyoke, Bow and DeWolfe Streets...
...John Harvard's statue, (see cut) the crowd moved towards President Conant's house. One solitary proctor, standing on the steps of Widener, made a heroic and successful effort to stop the march. After further miling around, the cry of "on to Radcliffe" was sung out, and the mob moved to the Annex. One hour later, after the police had driven around the Radcliffe quad collecting bursar's cards, the riot finally broke...
...town the mob which had gathered to beat him with sticks and stones became so fierce that Bishop Ford's Communist guards fled in terror. Though knocked to the ground again & again, Bishop Ford did his best to walk calmly through the streets till the guards returned. In another town his neck was bound with a wet rope which almost choked him as it dried and shrank. Another rope was made to trail from under his gown like a tail. To humiliate them both, the Reds once forced him to undress before Sister Joan Marie. She caught a glimpse...
Played in an imaginary 19th century principality, the picture is dressed up with lavish sets and up-to-date allusions to airplanes, submarines, germ warfare and atomic power. There are also a number of pseudo-slapstick chases-e.g., at the climax, Mephisto, menaced by an angry mob because his alchemistic gold has turned to sand, vanishes once & for all in a puff of smoke...
...hands with other malcontents, they staged a series of wild strikes, intended to rock the new regime before it could settle down. Six thousand cotton-mill workers ran amuck, smashing their looms, burning factories, stoning the police. "Treason," said Naguib. "The punishment is death." Armored cars beat back the mob; nine were killed. A military tribunal tried the ringleaders for treason...