Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drastic measures, and although Amherst's recent contribution was the first time a class rush has developed into a conscientious attempt at whole-sale murder, class rushes even when conducted in a temperate frame of mind are inevitably accompanied by casualties due to the indiscriminate milling of a large mob. The Amherst incident, unfortunate at it was should serve a purpose in emphasizing to students throughout the country the futility of extravagant "collegiate" customs, of which the class rush is but one of a large category...
Suddenly there was a great shouting and shuffling in City Hall corridors. A tattered mob led by Communists crowded into the high-ceiled, paneled council chamber until it was full. Outside were 2,000 more frenzied demonstrators. When police tried to clear the City Hall steps, a dozen men jumped on gigantic Inspector George J. Matowitz. He shook them like rats off his shoulders, shouted orders for more police. Mob fists crunched and pummeled. Knives flashed. Fire engines clattered up. Hose lines were connected. The mob was washed away. Behind it was left trampled Sol Jagoda with a broken back...
...East Liberty business district, threw bricks, stones, milk-bottles at every passing cab. They swooped down on parked cabs, drove off drivers, wrecked their machines. Gradually the scattered groups grew larger, coalesced into a thousand-headed monster thinking trouble. Every police reserve in the city raced to disperse the mob. Mounted police charged it unsuccessfully. When the rioting held up traffic, passengers piled out of street cars, joined the fight. Only after three hours did rioters scatter before tear gas bombs. Casualties: 86 injured, 11 jailed...
Despite the fact that recent comment has been rather in the direction of difference than indifference, there still seems to be evidence of a prevalent feeling that Harvard is a fitting subject for the attentions of a mob psychologist. The undergraduate is put in the embarrassing position of feeling that he ought to explain, and knowing that any attempt on his part will only make matters worse...
Athenian police, casehardened, made no move to arrest the carbolic spraying orderlies. But a mob collected around the Ministry of Health. Scared officials ordered the police to arrest not only the orderlies but also all doctors and nurses...