Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran, brother of the playwright and the man who telephoned "Mrs. Margolies" in The Front Page). High point of the drama comes with the second act curtain, when the circus rallying cry of "Hey, rube!" goes up as the train is attacked by a mob of town-folk...
Three big male spectators thereupon seized Bronston, threw him out. He barked from the lobby: "But I'll come back here some night with my mob and toss this camp out into the street...
...existing conditions, the picture is constructed of scenes showing the conflict of the ethical codes of the authorities and the prisoners and their means of enforcing these conflicting codes. On the one hand there is the power of the armed few pitted against concentrated, passive resistance of the mob. By a judicious use of the camera both impressionistically and realistically the feeling of the situation is made more tense than would be possible in any stage production...
These words the Dictator spoke not irresponsibly or to a cheering mob in the open air, but earnestly, gravely to an assemblage of Soviet economic experts in Moscow who nodded their grave, silent approval...
...then her nightmare is too much for her, she is its prisoner. The lawyer thinks he has persuaded her to appear as his star witness. But the prosecution finds her too. When she appears at the trial her perjured testimony condemns the innocent defendant. That night a mob takes the prisoner from the jail, burns him alive. The girl's father tries to make the best of an unspeakable business by taking her abroad, trying to patch up a hopelessly smashed life. The lawyer washes his hands of Justice, retires to failure and his shrewish wife...