Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows that the possibility of war is what makes a league--some kind of a league--necessary but does the question ever rise in his mind as to what causes war? Does anybody with sense suppose that the phrase "a war to end war" was anything but mob psychology practically applied? Is "democracy" as "safe" in the world today, with nations drunk with militarism and bloated in their national self-aggrandizement, as it was before the war? My friends there are certain economic and social conditions that maintain this monstrous institution called war, and until America does her part...
...German assassins hired by a British King. They were the first Sinn Feiners; this hall is the hall of Sinn Fein; this country is the first Sinn Fein country, and the Stars and Stripes is the first Sinn Fein flag." Responding to this wanton perversion of historical fact a mob that packed Faneuil Hall to the doors alternately wept, cheered and pounded its approval...
...that there need be no swing of the pendelum in the opposite direction. To the contrary, the chances are strongly in favor of such a movement simmering down to a good, comfortable bourgeois democracy, such as we ourselves enjoy, for the German temperament lacks that volatility which alone renders mob rule a menace...
...Allen comes from the most typically American state--the most intelligent on the whole and the most progressive. He represents the central corps of Americanism, which, being interpreted, means the belief in the ability of the average man to look after himself; a distrust of the power of the mob whether organized or not; a profound belief in representative government and a willingness to support it with all one's power and resources, and at the same time a belief that the government should know its place and keep...
...strong-arm squad of Boston's best brand-new policeman arrived two hours before the game to subdue the eager mob that threatened (according to the advance press notices) to tear down the Pavilion. After being thoroughly searched, both of the spectators that had come to see the great tussle were allowed to enter and claim their seats under a heavy and constant guard...