Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors from the Baltic Fleet sought out M. Trotsky, commanded his secretary to tell him to come out and be drubbed. No weakling, Leon Davidovich Trotsky (née Bronstein) rushed forth, stood with folded arms before the sailors, cried: "Ha, you want Trotsky! Well, Comrades, here...
Throughout Western Java in the Netherlandic Indies concerted Communist revolts broke out last week, seemingly indicating that the Indonesian Communist Party is much stronger than Netherlanders had thought. In Batavia, a mob made wild a sultry night with shootings and torch-flamings. In lesser towns, murders of district-chiefs were reported...
...Cuenca, provincial city in the highlands of Ecuador, the shirtless grew vexed last week at the high price and scarcity of salt. A mob, knowing a certain government warehouse to be well salted, attacked it, were repulsed by the police. Four rioters were killed...
...Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
There are in every college people with little taste and less judgment. And it is those people who help to keep alive such misunderstandings as this which has made a traditional game between worthy rivals a hark back to the Roman gladitorial combats with mob action as the climax of a college athletic contest. The CRIMSON admits that the Lampoon extra sent to the stadium immediately after the game last Saturday was a clever parody. The CRIMSON is not unwilling to rejoice at a rejuvenation of Lampoon esprit de corps. However, the CRIMSON believes that the notice of the death...