Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history, was closed to public orators. Order there and elsewhere was maintained by the full Boston police force on 24-hour duty. Riot squads were equipped with automatic rifles, hand grenades, tear bombs. Exciting looking characters were immediately boxed in by police and marched off "to protect them from mob violence...
Mussolini is an amusing demagog. His oratory is chiefly interrogation. "What country do you love?" he cries. "Italy!" roar the Italians. "Who will die for Italy?" he booms. "We all will!" chorus the Italians. "Shall I go backward or forward?" he thunders. "Forward!" howls the mob. And Mussolini has gone forward.?Dr. Robert Michels of the University of Basle, contributing to the theme "Dictatorship v. Democracy in Europe...
...guards of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin resisted the entrance of a mob led by the Countess Markievicz. She opened her purse, drew out a pistol, shot the guard dead, and continued to lead a faction of the great Republican demonstration staged in Dublin throughout the notorious "Black Easter Week...
Bonfire. Soon a mob trampled through shrubbery and flowers in the Schmerling-Platz, then rushed the vast, imposing Justiz-Palast. Neat clerks and bearded officials were seized by burly rioters and thoroughly tousled. Mobmen ransacked the Palace for papers of every sort, dumping them without discrimination on a large, roaring bonfire. From this the woodwork of the great building ignited, spurting tall flames. Throughout the crowd men still mouthed and gibbered, "JUSTICE. . . . Justice...
...that used by the corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than the mob at Margate, Blackpool, Brighton or Southend. Mr. Dowse contradicts himself when he refers to "amiable qualities" and then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism...