Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulgarian mob, wildly jubilant, carried their affianced King shoulder high through the streets of Sofia, severely trampled six small children...
...cheer, his last words to the enthusiastic mob were these: "Now you can crawl back under your stones. Good night!" After several quite understandable defeats truculent Candidate Smith went up to Parliament...
...camp. There the sheriff arrested five Negroes, took them before the nine-year-old for identification. She picked Willie Kirkland, 20, convict doing time for horse-stealing. The warden said Kirkland had not been out of the Stockade all that day. When Kirkland was returned to the camp, a mob of 75 gathered, including the nine-year-old's father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner to a nearby town for safekeeping, emerged with him. The girl's father raised a shotgun. Turmoil followed and, despite the urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff...
...know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
Harvard has not been exempt from the rush towards college since the war, and while scholastic standards have been steadily rising to hold back the mob at the door, this policy of exclusion has operated to the disadvantage of many men of low average intelligence but otherwise fully endowed with strong character, personality and other desirable traits. The University is beginning to hear complaints along this line from alumni who found no trouble in earning their gentleman's C's in the gay nineties but whose sons are in the process of flunking out or haven't even succeeded...