Word: mobbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forty-fifth minute of the "Two Hours of Silence" ticked, leading Wafdists with police whistles stationed themselves beside the barrows full of brickbats, blew and blew. Swiftly an immense Wafdist mob collected, seizing the brickbats, hurled them through plate glass windows with such suddenness that shopkeepers had not time to lower their steel shutters. When police appeared the brickbats flew thicker...
...another laid low Acting Police Commandant Major Arthur Remanba Bey. Falling back before the mob police climbed to the roof of the Law Courts Building, too high for brickbats to soar. Firing from this vantage point they put lead and fear into the milling crowd. By evening Egyptian soldiers, called from Sidi Bishr Barracks eight miles away, had restored order...
When Amy Johnson, England-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2), arrived in Perth on her triumphal tour of Australia's cities, a youth climbed aboard her motor from the cheering mob, tried to kiss her. She narrowed her eyes, drew back her hand, bloodied his nose...
...been given to understand that definite evidence will be made available for the grand jury in [the Lingle] murder." Before the week was out, police sleuths identified the pistol that killed Lingle as having been sold a few months ago to one Frank Foster, dapper member of the Capone "mob." Foster was missing from Chicago. A nationwide search began to find him, to ask him who may have used...
...citizens whose words are law in Texas and other parts of the South. Mrs. W. G. Skinner, photographed above with her husband and two-year-old child, accused Henry Argo of attempting criminal assault upon her, for which 'accusation' Argo was fired on by members of a mob . . . and stabbed by Skinner. . . . An investigator later disclosed the fact that Argo was accused by the woman because he repulsed an attack by the Skinner's dog while he was fishing in a nearby stream. Skinner was arrested and released on his own recognizance...