Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ness has a splendid whack at Chesterton's old dear: egg on the cassock, shy peer over specks askew, sedentary hobble, sly little grin. But in the long run, it becomes painfully clear that while Comedian Guinness can do no wrong as a sanctimonious rogue (The Lavender Hill Mob, The Captain's Paradise), it is just about impossible to do right by a roguish saint...
...scheduled performance. An elderly lady who barely missed getting in sidled up to the policeman and remarked, "Now this just goes to show how popular Joe is, and how right about everything he is, too." "Yeh," replied the uniform, "they shoulda hired out the Garden, look at the mob." The crowd of a thousand strung all the way to the Bay Street Beef Co. sign down the street. To satisfy the overflow a sound truck lumbered into position with the tinkling of the piano music inside drifting from its microphones...
...American in India, whose great-grandfather was a Louisiana slave-owner, I have proclaimed the Negro issue in the U.S. a dying problem. I am indignant that a mob of Baltimore bigots should make me eat my words and, worse still, drag America's name . . . into the mud before my Indian associates . . . We abroad are the ones who have to answer to the world for such conduct. What possible answer can we give? (THE REV.) B. H. MILLER Poona, India...
...down to serious shopping. A saleswoman showed Her Majesty around Hammacher Schlemmer and helped her select about $300 worth of gadgets-including bar equipment, a Scrabble game ("I'm just learning to play") and an umbrella-shaped umbrella stand. At Saks Fifth Avenue there was a mob scene as the Queen Mother bought jeweled cashmere sweaters for Queen Elizabeth (size 12) and Princess Margaret (size 10). "I'm afraid I'm buying too much," said the Queen, with a sudden womanly qualm. But then, in an equally womanly way, she comforted herself: "But I can see that...
Flame at Headquarters. In Cairo, a mob surged through narrow, shabby back streets to the Ikhwan (Brotherhood) headquarters and set it afire. By the time the firemen could get through the mob, the Ikhwan headquarters-once the center of Egypt's secret government which had made, broken, and even killed Premiers-was a gutted ruin. Four days later, police arrested the Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Ahmed Hassan el Hodeiby...