Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
...Manhattan Actress Ethel Barrymore, as had been widely predicted, closed her new play Scarlet Sister Mary in which she appeared as a Negress (TIME, Dec. 1). But she declared she would again try the production on the road. She explained: ". . . It's mob psychology. The people got together and said they'd not see me black. ... It seems to me New York audiences don't want something good now. . . . Anyway, I'm in damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while...
...Montana State College (Bozeman) were picketed by young men huddled around fires last week. From the women's dormitory came the wail of "The Prisoner's Song." There had been trouble. Some eyes still smarted from tear gas with which the local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that all co-eds must...
...Princeton Dean says that the rioting students acted worse than a mob of Reds. But not as badly, we feel sure, as an American Legion convention. --New Yorker...
...Abwan, Palestine, Ahmed Abed loved Zobaide, beauteous niece of Sam Mahaned. Twice rejected were Ahmed's marriage offers; he led a mob against Zobaide's father; she was accidentally shot. Uncle Sam Mahaned vowed vengeance on Ahmed, hunted him relentlessly across Europe, across the Atlantic, tracked him down in Union Station, Cleveland, Ohio. Then he called a policeman...