Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boxing stable has often contained upwards of 100 likely bullies. He sends them from city to city to meet other boxers and he usually guesses or knows how each match will come out. Successful fight betting has been not the least source of the Hoff fortune. The Hoff "mob" brings him much news from far places and when the young men are not fighting he keeps them busy driving trucks and whatnot...
...promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they register at their Philadelphia hotels. There is never any explanation of these presents...
...stare at the victims and gabble at the police. The police caught one man, rushing along the street with a revolver in his hand. But he was Mr. Lombardo's other bodyguard, one Joseph Lolordo. The assassins had put their guns in their pockets, mingled with the mob, vanished...
...mob, interpreting Il Duce's silence as a command, put 14 stiletto strokes into the assailant, one Anteo Zamboni, and pummeled his remains into a pulp...
Only once has a Fascist mob lynched an assailant of Signor Benito Mussolini. The single instance occurred at Bologna (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). There the Dictator sat implacable and silent, in his limousine, after a bullet had ripped through his sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, barely skirting the abdomen...