Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creditable piece of work. Much, of course, is lost in the transference, much of the depth and background of the characters' lives has been sacrificed in favor of the more melodramatic happenings of the book. There is no denying, however, that some of the political characterizations, the mob scenes, the insolent brutality of armed ruffians, the gripping terror but persistent courage of the Jessup family become realities in the mind of the spectator...
...doubt, with so many State Governors and big shots enrolled in the Legion mob, it is too much to hope that Congress will ever revoke the Legion charter; but at least we can look forward to the day when every major city will have decided to protect its people from further destruction of property, criminal attacks, intimidation, and indignity. For next year's convention, dear buddies, may I suggest the most inaccessible reaches of the Mojave Desert...
...game tomorrow . . . . brass buttons and brass music, smoky-blue greatcoats, lean American faces, gloved hands in a row as straight as a die; black jerseys with horizontal stripes, red jerseys with huge white numerals, golden pants. The Vagabond and his Love on cold stone seats, bruised by the carnival mob. And afterwards sweet dry applewood on the fire and lights coming on in windows across the Quadrangle and a long godbye...
...pioneers lined up on the edge of the Western lands waiting for the gun to send them on their way to stake claims in the new areas, over 100 students jammed the basement corridors of Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. After the doors of the room were opened, the mob rushed in and in less than 10 minutes had wolfed up the entire collection...
...mob of miners, maddened by labor grievances in the coal fields of southeastern Ohio, filled a mine-car with coal, doused it thoroughly with kerosene, ignited it, started it down the tracks of an inclined shaft in which, at the end of its run, it fired the unmined coal. That fire, started on the property of Columbus' Hocking Coal & Mine Co., has burned on underground ever since. By last week it had burned a subterranean area of twelve square miles...