Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glasgow was not calmed that easily. Looting and rioting continued intermittently for three days. Scotch reporters gloomily wired that a simple impulse to snatch and steal, rather than any motive of politics or protest seemed to inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy...
...Master, fly for your life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid...
...sense unimportant. He has been, obviously, much influenced by the same forces which he believes led his subjects to their querulous, rebellious, dissenting position in life and literature, the forces--commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution--of standardization and mechanization, and the depressing mediocrity of the mob. The world, especially the modern world, is a little too much with him, and it is with the men of whom he writes. One suspects his writing, somehow, of a past full of many themes and reports, where an anxious solemnity has routed levity. Nevertheless, the critique is acute and readable. The stories...
...student mob savagely assaults the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nanking Government. Thereupon some one rises to point out the contrast with the attitude of the American student to anything more serious than a freshman hazing. The indifference of our college youth to movements and causes that have always stirred the educated youth of other countries is still a source of wonder to foreign visitors...
British undergraduates are said to be much more interested in politics than American, but Great Britain knows the "student mob" as little as we do. The reason may be not in the student but in the environment. Where there is full freedom of speech and opinion there is little inducement for violence...