Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dramatic Club has issued an appeal for 20 "supers" to take part in the coming production of "Pedro the King." They will be asked to take parts of members of a mob, which will be composed of male and female characters of all ages...
There is fight in the air. Wednesday evening fifteen hundred Yale students commanded their team to "Beat Harvard". At the same time a wildly enthusiastic Harvard mob of twice that size was pounding out the refrain: "We'll beat Yale!" When Coach Tad Jones, who is old and wise in the ways of the Crimson and the Blue, told Yale supporters that "the coming struggle will be the hardest of the season" he knew what he was talking about. There is fight...
...made to order. You can't tell a person to compose one and then arbitrarily adopt it. They spring full-grown from the national consciousness. They are born, not in the study, but in moments of stress, in great national crises. The Marseillaise grew out of an hysterical mob. The Star-Spangled Banner was inspired by the bursting of bombs by night. Most national anthems are old songs whose symbolic significance came to them later-almost unconsciously. Most of them are worthless as poetry. Many are not notable as music. Ireland, overlooking the psychology of patriotic song, has tried...
...Having incited the mob to kill Vice Consul Imbrie; having disregarded the orders of Second Lieutenant Mustafa Khan and the noncommissioned officer, Mohammed Ali Khan, who three times ordered him to desist and pulled him out of the mob, and having nevertheless persisted in attacking...
...attempt to meet the inflamed miners halfway results disagreeably in mob violence, several variously assorted murders, a broken head for John, explosions, collapse in the value of the property. An outsider, unhampered by humanitarian scruples, buys a controlling interest in the mines for a fraction of their value...