Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return of monarchial interests, of dueling, of odd theological beliefs prove that the universities of Germany have returned to an individualistic basis. The nature of college life leads a man to think for himself. The sum total of college is apt to disagree with the voice of the mob. Although American colleges may have favored Wilson's purpose to join the League of Nations, America itself went against that policy. Thus German universities in their revival of individualistic thinking show proofs of an escape from ruling contamination's. Hereafter their educational values will be as uncontrolled, as disinterested, as farsighted...
...Vchov and Mme. Petrova unfortunately recovered at dawn, and their heads were promptly crushed "with a heavy axle beam" while the mob howled "to drive away their evil spirits...
...three flayers who fell upon Karl Busch in your issue of Dec. 28 surely went the limit. Especially reprehensible was the one who inquired for Mr. Busch's address so as to be able to set the American Legion on him! As if the American Legion consisted of a mob of rowdies ready and waiting for a "lynching...
...urbane and well slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
Down the rue de Faubourg Saint-Honore swarmed a cheering mob of ragged Parisian children. As les enfants hurried past the famed emporiums of oriental pearls, certified antiques and exorbitantly priced Russian knickknacks which line that haughty thoroughfare, shop-keepers looked out and prayed to le bon Dieu that He would spare their windows the contamination of too many noses...