Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resounding fitfully but alarmingly through Paris, as Communists staged a very poor imitation of "a general 24-hour strike." A few taxi drivers were whacked and mauled for not striking, and many more heeded the warning and "struck." In the outlying factory districts there was a bit of sharp mob-fighting for a time. But in general the gendarmes kent the situation well in hand: some 50 Paris Communists were arrested...
...worried, say the newspapers. A German moving picture, produced as propaganda for the German "naked culture" movement is about to be exhibited in England; and one of the most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...
Shortly after the event Fascist-censored cables and telegrams declared that a hot-headed Freemason, Giovanni Benciolini had wantonly shot and killed Cavaliere Luperini, a Fascist leader, and had then been set upon by an infuriated Fascist mob, which not only beat him to death but wreaked awful vengeance upon all Freemasons who could be found...
...Covent Garden, England, a cockney porter piled 20 round baskets on top of each other, lifted them, quaking and jiggling, while a vulgar mob disguised its awe under facetiousness, placed them upon his head and, with crossed legs, balanced so, while a camera snapped. ... a record...
Every fall now, we as a country, go college-mad. We call it the football craze, but nobody who has the slightest knowledge of mob psychology can underestimate the enormous impetus college wards that the absorption in football is giving the youth of America. It is impossible to think of football without thinking also of college. The two ideas are psychological Siamese twins. And it is impossible not the think of football from the day when the first fall practice beguns until after Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans...