Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Didactic dim-wits will argue: College students ought to know better, they ought to be able to use their heads, to reason. But there are times when a student is not a student. One of these times is when he is part of a mob. Another of these times is when he has just had certain emotions mauled, teased, tampered with by provocative meddlers, who know not what they...
...when a college student is a part of a mob after a pep meeting, one cannot expect reason. Quite plainly there is one logical method of riot and raid prevention; eliminate the mob. The Michigan Daily
...take a night off to listen to emotional outbursts of over-footballized epthusiasts? And why follow the mob, sit in a crowded room, and absorb the palpitating heart beats of the freshman sitting next to you, merely to hear the rather boring remarks about the necessity of winning the Harvard game this week-end? We were beaten by Yale last week and we may be beaten by Harvard on Saturday. But why get excited about...
Would-be-Assassin Lucetti, dragged by the police from a mob which was trying to lynch him, said quietly: "I am an anarchist. I came from Paris to kill Mussolini. I was born in Italy. I have no accomplices...
...Adorable Liar. A delicate mechanism is the young girl of romantic hallucinations. Only a kindly sheriff and a sensitive audience can really understand. When she stirs a mob to a manhunt, excites even domestic Aunt Josephine to the point of exclaiming, "I'd rather lynch than lunch," it takes all the sensible characters in the play to straighten out the situation. Suspense attains impressive proportions as bloodhounds draw near Karrie's bedroom where a knight errant is being irreproachably entertained. Unlike most other current comedies, this one strives to root its action in human nature rather than...