Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night-riding mob of 40 or 50 beat up a Negro housewife; it was rumored that they were really after her husband for philandering with a white woman. Other floggings were given to Negro and white victims variously charged with wife beating, failure to attend church, drunkenness, disrespect to parents, laziness. Warnings on Klan stationery were sent to many: one woman was told that there was only one man, specifically named, that she was to go out with. If she went out with anybody else, "steps would be taken." It got so, around Tabor City, that everyone polished...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness in a bright, British farce-comedy about a staid bank employee who satisfies the inner criminal yearnings of a lifetime (TiME...
...Laughton all the way. His sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose. Toward the picture's end, as a mob of Parisian beggars storm Notre Dame's doors, Laughton climbs to the roof and hurls huge building blocks down on the crowd as he howls with maniacal laughter. For a finale, he overturns a cauldron of molten metal into the gutters leading to the cathedral's gargoyle rain-spouts...
King Farouk and Egypt's wealthy ruling pashas had read the danger signal in the daylong, $300 million mob orgy fortnight ago in Cairo's streets. It was no spontaneous outburst of patriots angered by the British troops who killed 46 Egyptian policemen at Ismailia the day before (TIME, Feb. 4). The riot was blueprinted and timed to the instant. Rioters struck at 220 different points within 30 minutes. Jeep-borne leaders coordinated the separate gangs, providing target directions, fuel and weapons...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness in a bright British farce-comedy about a staid bank employee who satisfies the inner criminal yearnings of a lifetime (TIME...