Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch...
...last time, though it is to be hoped that the movement can be kept within the bounds of reason when the next bull market really gets under way. The greatest danger lies in the lack of judgment on the part of the average speculator and investor. Mob psychology invariably rules the day, and the elemental principle that stocks are a much more attractive buy when low than when high has no effect in curbing the unbounded optimism of the American people, once the ball starts rolling...
...from the environs. They knew that: 1) No matter what the prisoner said, Texas law requires a taking of testimony; 2) Mrs. Farlow, as a witness, was to be carried to the courthouse on a stretcher. There she was! As she entered, so did the crowd, soon a howling mob. Four Texas rangers adjourned court with tear gas bombs...
When the fire had cooled, the mob was still hot. With dynamite and acetylene torches it opened the vault. Hughes's still-limp body was chained, dragged about town, strung up, burned...
...dawned rainy, giving the natives new trade at the doors of the open-air theatre-hot-water bottles, blankets, umbrellas. All day through the long performance, wind and rain beat upon huddled spectators and struggling players. When the sun did burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty of the new Christus (Alois Lang), the bewildered aspect of the old Judas (Guido Mayr), the rosy simplicity...