Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city of Bombay a mob of "Untouchables" (the despised lowest class whose status Mr. Gandhi has tirelessly sought to raise) suddenly decided, last week, to fling themselves on the ground before the holy Nasik Temple and thus obstruct Lordly Brahmans from their worship. All India shuddered at reports that an Untouchable girl had slapped the face of a Brahman priest-far worse than a Negro wench's slapping a white bishop in Dixie. One hundred Untouchables were jailed...
...deal of money spent to present a moving picture in the manner of the historical stories that David Wark Griffith directed so successfully many years ago. But everything is stupidly done: the people are schoolbook figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march to the palace, the fight with the palace guards, are spoiled by bad detail. The carpenters, for instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same...
...those which brought general persecution on the Church. In 1842 Prophet Smith became a martyr to his 'faith. He had been arraigned 39 times on various charges without once being convicted. At length he was charged with treason against the State of Illinois, was jailed at Carthage. A mob attacked the prison; both Prophet Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot dead. In 1847, harassed beyond endurance by their enemies in the East, the greater part of the Mormon Church followed its new leader, Prophet Brigham Young, to the empty land of Deseret which has become thriving, bountiful Utah...
...handed out by the New Haven authorities, though harsh, may be justified in instances when actual damage to property or persons is involved. But one cannot be sure that any student body has reached the point where all of its members are level-headed and can remain uninfluenced by mob spirit under the circumstances that usually lead to college riots. There is a broad distinction between rioting with a definite destructive purpose in mind and occasional outbursts of misdirected energy, even though there be nothing whatever in the latter to justify them in any way. Moreover the broad clause which...
...alone.-ED. Macfadden Praised Sirs: Superior people who scoff at Macfadden campaign to make people respect their bodies give me acute pains. Personally 23 years ago his ideas helped me break an intercollegiate record and that's that. His methods are the only ones which will reach the mob-more power...