Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good friend Lieut. Charles W. A. Scott, Royal Air Force boxer (TIME, June 15) in the same type of plane. After a hurried luncheon at Pevensey, Pilot Mollison flew 45 mi. farther, to Croydon, almost mowed down a pet kangaroo brought to the airdrome by one of an admiring mob...
...soldiers with fixed bayonets.* Hundreds of Syndicalists were arrested. Enough pistols and knives were found on them to fill six hampers in the police station. Two army trucks were filled with prisoners, sent off to exile in West Africa. Four men were killed in the Plaza Espana when a mob attempted to rescue the caravan of exiles...
...jerks, the barks, the hysterical whoops-&-jingles. Brother Semple preached the opening sermon at nightfall, on The Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford, who had come curiously with her uncle, soon wished she hadn't. Mob hysteria laid her low, nearly scared her out of her skin. Up front in the ''straw pen" (an enclosure made safe for writhing revivalists by strewn straw) male & female sinners flopped in convulsions...
...feeble. Excerpts: "It explains a great deal about Herbert Hoover to learn that he was not a 'swimming hole kid.' . , . He is paying the price of drudgery and discipline. So is the American people. . . . He is our first hair shirt hero. . . . Mr. Hoover detests and dreads the mob. . . . His is a detailed, though somewhat disorderly mind. He gives off light, not heat. He is as dynamic as a 30-watt bulb. . . . He can work with underlings but not with equals. . . . Mr. Hoover was a promoter rather than a mining expert. His salary was $5,000 for mining work...
Unpatching, Last week just as some semblance of peace was about to be restored to the district a fresh outburst of tragedies occurred. In defiance of an injunction, a mob of 600 National strikers marched on Butler Consolidated's Wildwood mine. According to police, the march had been planned the day before by William Z. Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist whose Trade Union Unity League embraces the National. According to strikers, the deputies started firing without warning. Throwing rocks, the miners stood their ground for 15 min. When the smoke cleared away, twelve strikers, including a woman...